Etgar Keret: 12 books

Classic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of...

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....

**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...

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...

A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad—such are the denizens of Etgar Keret's dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge contains the best of Keret's first collections, the ones that made him a household name in Israel and the major discovery of this last decade.

我們在最絕望的黑暗角落，總會找到美好的意義。 《忽然一陣敲門聲》風靡45國的以色列小說家 艾加．凱磊 撼動世界文壇的真實故事 「這本書帶我進入了寫作上的新境界， 那裡既陌生，又私密……太可怕了。 我甚至不敢用母語出版，只敢與陌生人分享。」──艾加．凱磊 ▲破天荒譯為波斯語，打破伊朗書市對以色列禁令 ▲亞馬遜書店選書、美國NPR年度選書、日本《達文西雜誌》怦然心動選書 ▲榮登法國書店、美國獨立書商協會、舊金山紀事報等排行榜 ▲榮獲查理斯．布朗夫曼人道精神獎、義大利ADEI...

他的寫作能治癒靈魂 他的故事讓世界更美好 他的敘事會附著在你體內 他能代表下一個世代的聲音 ★紐約時報奉為「天才」，魅力席捲40國 ★正風靡全球文學舞台的以色列小說家 艾加．凱磊 ★2016年2月旋風訪台，你不能不認識！ 艾加．凱磊曾以《忽然一陣敲門聲》在台灣榮獲誠品、博客來、馬來西亞大眾書局選書推薦，出版40天緊急再版七次，並奪下誠品翻譯文學榜冠軍，擊敗馬奎斯、胡賽尼、東野圭吾等強勁對手，創造空前的短篇小說閱讀熱潮。 《再讓我說個故事好不好》獲凱磊親自授權，集結他出道至今最獨特的代表作，從150字的極短篇到兩萬字的生涯最長篇，從「稿紙被大哥拿去擦狗屎」的出道之作到風靡以色列的國民故事，題材包羅萬象，捕捉一閃即逝的日常心情，也深刻反映當代以色列社會的狀態。 《忽然一陣敲門聲》開啟你閱讀短篇小說的癮，本書則帶來最意想不到的艾加．凱磊：有點熟悉，卻又十足新奇，上一秒激起心靈深處的共鳴，下一秒的奇思妙想，立刻攪動腦細胞原有的排列方式！ ◆各界創意人熱烈好評 吳定謙、劉梓潔、蘭萱、《16個夏天》編劇杜政哲、黃麗群、陳夏民、廣告導演盧建彰、張妙如、文壇大師魯西迪、《愛的歷史》作者克勞斯、《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》作者馬泰爾、《偶然與你相遇》才女導演裘莉...

**“Writers like T.C. Boyle and Cory Doctorow contributed to this surreal anthology of short stories that riff on our modern surveillance culture.” —**Entertainment Weekly With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles...

Presented for the first time in full color, award-winning writer Etgar Keret (The Seven Good Years) and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Asaf Hanuka’s (The Realist) powerful graphic novel, Pizzeria Kamikaze, is a most unexpected story of love, loss, and escape. Mordy wanted to get away. Now condemned...

是什麼樣的故事，讓人不惜拿槍抵著小說家的腦袋， 甚至把他五花大綁，只為了再聽一個？ 來自以色列，用希伯來文創作，只寫短篇小說的作家， 為何能風靡全球38國，筆下近50個故事改拍為電影？ 他如何能登上外語文學最難攻克的美國排行榜TOP...

A new literary journal arrives on the scene with unpublished works from such superstars as Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, and others.   In this inaugural edition of Freeman’s, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together...

From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer—"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi) Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in...