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Keret, Etgar,
1967-
135003
Fly already /
Etgar Keret ; translated by Sandra Silverston, Nathan Englander, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger and Yardenne Greenspan.
London :
Granta,
2019.
209 p. ;
20 cm.
Translated from the Hebrew.
There’s no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move...
In “Arctic Lizard,” a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in “Fly Already.” In “One Gram Short,” a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece “Pineapple Crush,” two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship.
The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar’s deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.
Keret, Etgar,
1967-
Translations into English.
135003
112041
Fiction in translation
112554
Fiction
21st century
134162
Short stories.
Englander, Nathan.
translator.
69217
Cohen, Jessica
translator
120191
Shlesinger, Miriam,
translator.
135005
1947-2012
Greenspan, Yardenne
translator.
135006
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