In this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, as painfully funny as they are brief, Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain, confirming his status as both Israel’s bestselling young writer and new national conscience.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"'Keret's stories are brief and powerful linguistic downpours, usually punctuated by uproarious climaxes.' Booklist; 'Etgar Keret is an author I urge you to seek out. In a word: fabulous.' Herald Sun"
About the Author
Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is one of the leading voices in Israeli literature and cinema. In the last twelve years he has published four books of short stories and novellas, four graphic novels and one feature screenplay. His story collections, bestsellers in Israel, have been published in seventeen different languages. His movie, Malka Red-Heart, won the Israeli 'Oscar', as well as acclaim at several international film festivals. His most recent book, Gaza Blues, was a collaboration with the Palestinian writer Samir el-Youssef. Keret lectures at Tel Aviv University's School of Film.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
lovely short stories,
By dame ethel (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Nimrod Flip-Out (Paperback)
Etgar Keret's stories are surreal and exciting. They are mostly very short (4-6 pages). They tend to twist. And can be very moving. In some of his paragraphs, each sentence creates a subtly different emotion (for me at least). The themes are often dark. Other times (or at the same time) there is a innocence to them.
I find the stories in Nimrod Flip-out a little less easy to relate to than those in Keret's other English-language collection "the Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories". (Which is the reason this book doesn't quite get a 5-star rating.) But "Nimrod Flip-out" is definitely worth a read. My advice is to read the stories slowly, one or two a day. Otherwise they might tend to blend into one another. Nb: I have the Australian edition of Etgar Keret's "the Nimrod Flip-out" which was published in 2004 by Picador/ Pan McMillan. The stories in this collection have been translated from Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston. There may be some differences in the contents of these two editions, but from the reviews I have read of this UK edition, most of the stories seem to be the same.
3 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book by a great writer,
By Jay T (Ny) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Nimrod Flip-Out (Paperback)
i red the book in hebrew. funny short stories.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
