Book description
'Etgar Keret's short stories are fierce, funny, full of energy and
insight, and at the same time they are often deep, tragic and very
moving' - Amos Oz
At a children's tea party, a magician tries to pull a rabbit out of
a hat, but takes out only its head; a young man has a mother and
girlfriend who each demand that he gives them the other one's heart;
while a Nobel Laureate asks an orphan to perform a very strange task.
In Etgar Keret's blackly comic stories the unexpected can, and
usually does, happen. They are clever, quick, sometimes violent and
often intensely poignant. They are, in short, brilliant.
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
, his first film as a director 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.
