Kneller's Happy Campers

Kneller's Happy Campers
Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2009-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1407051695

Kneller's Happy Campers is a strange, dark but funny tale set in a world very much like our own but it's an afterlife populated by people who have killed themselves - many of them are young, and most of them bear the marks of their death... bullet wounds, broken necks...(those who have over-dosed are known as 'Juliets'). When Mordy, our hero, discovers that his girlfriend from his life before has also 'offed' herself, he sets out to find her, and so follows a strange adventure... Full of the weird and wonderful characters, and the slightly surreal twist of events that we've come to expect from Etgar Keret, this novella is full of humour and comic flashes, but it is also wistful, longing for a better world and perfect love.

Pizzeria Kamikaze

Pizzeria Kamikaze
Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2018-03-14
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1613988583

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 to an afterlife exclusively for all victims of suicide, he still has to attend a crappy job in a place no less crappy than the place he came from. When he discovers that his beloved ex-girlfriend is there too, he embarks on much needed road trip through an absurdist and fantastical landscape to find her.

Missing Kissinger

Missing Kissinger
Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Featuring stories in which many of the characters are waiting for something to change their lives, 'Missing Kissinger' describes the search for ultimate happiness. As is often the case, the unexpected can - and usually does - occur."

The Seven Good Years

The Seven Good Years
Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0698166000

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. 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. What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There’s Lev’s insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. 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. This wise, witty memoir—Etgar’s first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style—is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.

Gaza Blues

Gaza Blues
Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Picador Australia
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780330422208

An anthology of stories by Etgar Keret translated from Hebrew and one story entitled The day the beast got thirsty by Samir El-Youssef.

Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture
Author: Gilad Padva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2017-10-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3319552813

This edited volume is an inquiry into the representation of intimate relationships in a diverse array of media including cinema, arts, literature, picture books, advertising and popular music. It examines artistic portrayal of intimate relationships as a subversion of the boundaries between the representable and the non-representable, the real and the surreal, the visceral and the ideal, the embodied and the abstracted, the configured and transfigured. The essays focus on artistic mediation of intimacy in diverse relationships, including heterosexual, same-sex, familial, sibling' , political, and sadomasochistic. The collection offers new interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives on current trends in the study of popular representations of intimacy; representations that affect and formulate people's most personal inspirations, desires, angsts, dreams and nightmares in an increasingly alienated, industrialized world.

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God
Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2001-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312339258

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.

Tel Aviv Noir

Tel Aviv Noir
Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617751545

Keret and Gavron masterfully assemble some of Israel's top contemporary writers into a compulsively readable collection.