Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret's new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams and waki[...]
A story wherein different characters are not happy with the way things are going on in their lives. They are waiting for something to change their lives. Will these characters able to realise the happiness they have been waiting for?[...]
Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the "New York Times", Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this bestselling collection.
A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to h[...]
A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad--such are the denizens of Etgar Keret's dark and fertile mind. "The Girl on the Fridge "contains the best of Keret's first collections, the [...]
When Mordy, our hero, discovers that his girlfriend from his life before has also 'offed' herself, he sets out to find her, and so follows a strange adventure...[...]
Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Hilarious, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the "New York Times", Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this, his sixth bestselling collection. Long a household name in Israel, where he has been declar[...]
Two writers, Israeli Etgar Keret and Palestinian Samir el-Youssef have engaged in a challenging and provocative artistic collaboration, producing a book of short stories and a novella exploring different aspects of a fraught and complex situation.[...]
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a genius ("The" "New York Times") and master storyteller.
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist atta[...]
Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller "Brooklyn Noir," Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
Though sometimes ove[...]
Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the Iranian president Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitic remarks both real an[...]
The New York Times har utnämnt Etgar Keret till "one of the most original writers of his generation.? I den här lekfulla, underfundiga och galet roliga novellsamling visar han varför. Här skildrar Keret det vardagslivets absurditeter som ingen annan.Att uppfostra ett barn, att ljuga för chefen,[...]
Coolt och underfundigt om unga i Israel. Om sex, kärlek och vänskap. Om den perfekta flickvännen som varje natt förvandlas till en öldrickande och högljudd fotbollsfantast och om en talande fisk som på en strandrestaurang ber dig ta första bästa plan ut ur landet.
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Etgar Keret var för många svenska läsare en av fjolårets stora överraskningar och hans debutbok "Åtta procent av ingenting" blev en av det årets mest omtalade/ombloggade böcker. Nu är Keret tillbaka med en ny samling rappt berättade historier från Israels skuggsida. Lika underhållande f�[...]
Etgar Kerets debut på svenska Åtta procent av ingenting blev en av fjolårets mest omtalade och kritikerhyllade böcker. Nu ger vi ut den i pocket!
Etgar Keret skriver rappa och underfundiga berättelser om sex, kärlek och vänskap i ett Israel långt bortom nyhetsrubrikerna.
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