Book description
Kneller's Happy Campers is a strange, dark but funny tale set
in a world very much like our own but it's an afterlife populated by
people who have killed themselves - many of them are young, and most
of them bear the marks of their death... bullet wounds, broken
necks...(those who have over-dosed are known as 'Juliets').
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...
Full of the weird and wonderful characters, and the slightly surreal
twist of events that we've come to expect from Etgar Keret, this
novella is full of humour and comic flashes, but it is also wistful,
longing for a better world and perfect love.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is one of the leading voices in
Israeli literature and cinema. He is the author of five bestselling
collections, which have been translated into twenty-nine languages. His
writing has been published in the
New York Times
,
le Monde
, the
Guardian
, the
Paris Review
and
Zoetrope
. He has also written a number of award-winning screenplays, and
Jellyfish
, the first film that he directed -along with his wife Shira Geffen -
won the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In
2010 he was awarded the Chevalier medallion of France's Order of Arts
and Letters.
