Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. This book gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English.
Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain - from a father's first lesson to his boy, to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict, to a slice of life where nothing much happens.
