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Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God 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.

Bus Driver includes stories from Keret's bestselling collections in Israel, Pipelines and Missing Kissinger, as well as Keret's major new novella, "Kneller's Happy Campers," a bitingly satirical yet wistful road trip set in the afterlife for suicides.

Review:

"[T]wenty-two short, wonderfully surreal, laugh-out-loud-funny stories...all of them witty gems from a singular storyteller." Elle

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 ten years he has published three books of short stories and novellas, two comics books, two feature screenplays, and numerous teleplays. Bestsellers in Israel, his story collections have been published in eight different languages. His movie, "Malka Red-Heart," won the Israeli "Oscar," as well as acclaim at several international film festivals. Keret lectures at Tel Aviv University's School of Film.

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Think Kafka.........with a sense of humor.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780312261887
Subtitle:
and Other Stories
Translated by:
Keret, Etgar
Author:
Keret, Etgar
Translated by:
Kerrett, Etgar
Translated by:
Margaret Weinberger Rotman
Publisher:
Thomas Dunne Books
Location:
New York, NY
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Jewish
Subject:
Kerrett, Etgar
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
12372
Publication Date:
October 2001
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
7.38x5.24x.70 in. .60 lbs.

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