|
Showing 1 - 14 of
14 matches in All Departments
|
The Seven Good Years (Paperback)
Etgar Keret; Translated by Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, Anthony Berris
1
|
R301
R207
Discovery Miles 2 070
Save R94 (31%)
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
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 and imagined, and,
perhaps most worrisome of all, a dogged telemarketer who seems
likely to chase him to the grave. Emerging from these darkly absurd
circumstances is a series of funny, tender ruminations on
everything from his three-year-old son's impending military service
to the terrorist mindset behind Angry Birds. Moving deftly between
the personal and the political, the playful and the profound, The
Seven Good Years takes a life-affirming look at the human need to
find good in the least likely places, and the stories we tell
ourselves to make sense of our capricious world.
|
Fly Already (Paperback)
Etgar Keret; Translated by Sondra Silverston, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, Nathan Englander, …
1
|
R230
Discovery Miles 2 300
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into
giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and
call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you
want the joy of company? Don't worry, just buy up people's
birthdays, and you'll have friends calling every day. You need to
get girls into bed? Don't worry, your writer friend will write you
a very persuasive story. You're standing on the edge of a very high
building, with all of your wretched sorrows? Don't worry, fly
already! In these 22 short stories, wild capers reveal painful
emotional truths, and the bizarre is just another name for the
familiar. Wickedly funny and thrillingly smart, Fly Already is a
collage of absurdity, despair and love, written by veteran
commentator on the circus farce that is life.
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 ones that made him a household name
in Israel and the major discovery of this last decade.
From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer--"Stories
that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and
affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel,
author of "Life of Pi")
Already featured on "This American Life" and "Selected Shorts" and
in "Zoetrope: All Story" and "L.A. Weekly," these short stories
include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend
and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark;
shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and
a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel,
"The Nimrod Flipout" is an extraordinary collection from the
preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.
'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.
|
Tel Aviv Noir (Paperback)
Etgar Keret, Assaf Gavron
|
R445
R361
Discovery Miles 3 610
Save R84 (19%)
|
Ships in 9 - 15 working days
|
Though sometimes overshadowed internationally by Jerusalem, Tel
Aviv is in many ways the cultural capital of Israel, and is home to
many of the country's best writers. This unparalleled collection
gives insight into the daily life of Israelis, albeit through a
noir lens. Simultaneous publication with "Tehran Noir" (a
controversial combination) will help draw attention to both
books.
Features brand-new stories by Etgar Keret, Gadi Taub, Lavie
Tidhar, Deakla Keydar, Matan Hermoni, Julia Fermentto, Gon Ben Ari,
Shimon Adaf, Alex Epstein, Antonio Ungar, Gai Ad, Assaf Gavron,
Silje Bekeng, and Yoav Katz.
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 waking life coexist in an
uneasy world. Overflowing with absurdity, humor, sadness, and
compassion, the tales in" Suddenly, a Knock on the Door" establish
Etgar Keret--declared a "genius" by "The New York Times"--as one of
the most original writers of his generation.
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 his head, demands that he tell him a story,
something to take him away from the real world. A pathological liar
discovers one day that all the lies he tells come true. A young
woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it
he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Suddenly, a
Knock on the Door is at once Keret's most mature and most playful
work yet, and establishes him as one of the great international
writers of our time.
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.
|
|