Etgar Keret
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.
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 attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their...
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 attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Israeli crime fiction that “sets the bar high for subsequent Noir offerings. The genre is hot, Tel Aviv is exotic, and this volume is outstanding” (Library Journal, starred review).
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched with the summer ’04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set...
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched with the summer ’04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set...
Author
Language
English
Description
What happens when a tired boy with a fertile imagination is left to fend for himself at the zoo? Well, if his father is too busy to play and must talk business on his phone, and it's close to naptime, then ... a lot. After freeing sad animals from their cages, the boy takes a ride in an airship with an old turtle and a lazy rhinoceros. Once on board he describes to Habakkuk, the ship's captain, the traits of the rarely seen long-haired cat-boy cub:...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection.
"There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." —George Saunders
There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads...
"There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." —George Saunders
There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads...
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Series
Language
Français
Description
À la découverte des traditions et de la culture d'Israël.
Une petite fille apprend à nager avec grand-mère Reisel, dans le périmètre réservé aux croyances orthodoxes. Plus loin, Félix Silvane agent d'assurances, émerge d'un coma profond et réalise qu'il n'a jamais contracté d'assurance pour lui-même. Dans une maison de retraite, une vieille femme serre un oignon dans sa main pour le repas du shabbat alors qu'elle regarde ses enfants...
8) Jellyfish
Author
Language
עברית
Description
Poignant, witty and cinematic, it tells the story of three different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave a portrait of modern Israeli life. Co-directed by famed Israeli writer and This American Life contributor Etgar Keret.
Author
Publisher
Symphony Space, Inc
Language
English
Description
Our most popular volume! Over three hours of stories to tickle your funny bone.
Nicholson Baker's Subsoil
read by Thomas Gibson
A darkly comic thriller about a tractor historian besieged by man-eating potatoes.
John Updike's Farrell's Caddie
read by Charles Keating
An American golfer gets more than golfing tips from his Scottish caddie.
David Schickler's Jamaica
read by Isaiah Sheffer
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