Synopses & Reviews
From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer.
Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.
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"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
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"Keret's short stories are filled with antiheroes. There are no brave Maccabees, no swashbuckling warriors. Instead, his sketches dramatize the mundane details of daily life. Keret's [stories] seem to promise that there is more to life than Merkava tanks and suicide killers, more even than nanotech or IPOs. His quirky collections...offer a glimpse into the Israeli subconscious." Newsweek
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"One of the joys of this collection by Mr. Keret, a young Israeli writer, is the insight it gives into the life of his countrymen....Mr. Keret's incredible stories are complemented by his laconic style. Bizarre things happen in each and every one of them, but neither he nor his characters bat an eye at the oddities surrounding them. Like the undercurrent of terrorism, this could be an aspect of the Israeli psyche." The Washington Times
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The Nimrod Flipout contains 30 stories, most of which straddle the line between a joke and a fable. The tone is what Rod Serling might have sounded like had he decided to make The Twilight Zone a comedy set in Israel, with each episode lasting just a few minutes....Keret's Israelis are described with the cut-to-the-chase imperative of a comedian. The people who dash in and out of his stories are the sort of familiar urbanites you would find in a sitcom, albeit one playing on a television that might become untethered at any moment, floating away into oblivion as though it were all a strange dream.” Thomas Beller, The New York Times Book Review
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"A funny and keen chronicler of human foibles, perfecting his craft." Kirkus Reviews
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"Like French surrealist Marcel Aymé, Keret keeps his stories one dimensional, but it's a dimension he has mastered, one that peels away the borderlines of normalcy." Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
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 Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.
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Synopsis
A bestseller in Israel, this volume of short stories from a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier to a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.
About the Author
Etgar Keret is the author of three bestselling story collections, one novella, three graphic novels, and a children's book. His fiction has been translated into sixteen languages and has been the basis for more than forty short films (including the winner of an MTV prize). He lives and teaches in Tel Aviv.
Table of Contents
Fatso
The Nimrod Flipout
Shooting Tuvia
One Kiss on the Mouth in Mombasa
Fatso
The Nimrod Flipout
Shooting Tuvia
One Kiss on the Mouth in Mombasa
Your Man
Shriki
Eight Percent of Nothing
Pride and Joy
Surprise Egg
Dirt
Actually, I've Had Some Phenomenal Hard-ons Lately
More Life
Glittery Eyes
Teddy Trunk
Malffunction
Halibut
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Horsie
My Girlfriend's Naked
Bottle
A Visit to the Cockpit
A thought in the Shape of a Story
Gur's Theory of Boredom
The Tits on an Eighteen-Year-Old
Bwoken
Baby
Ironclad Rules
A Good-Looking Couple
Himme