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Etgar Keret

Biography

Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan and now lives in Tel Aviv. A recipient of the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, the Charles Bronfman Prize, and the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, he is the author of the memoir THE SEVEN GOOD YEARS and story collections, including THE BUS DRIVER WHO WANTED TO BE GOD. His work has been translated into 45 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, WiredThe Paris Review and The New York Times, among many other publications, and on This American Life, where he is a regular contributor.

Etgar Keret

Books by Etgar Keret

by Etgar Keret - Fiction, Humor, Short Stories

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.

by Etgar Keret - Memoir, Nonfiction

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 home and permeates daily life. Etgar’s siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father’s shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever.