Etgar Keret Libri

Una raccolta di racconti con uno spirito apparentemente assurdo che, in realtà, illumina il lettore su tanti aspetti del mondo, cercando le risposte alle più grandi domande esistenziali.

All’improvviso bussano alla porta e uno scrittore si ritrova ostaggio di un gruppo di persone che, con la minaccia delle armi, gli intima di raccontare una storia. In difficoltà, lo scrittore cerca di cavarsela in una situazione che “ad Amos Oz e David Grossman non capiterebbe mai”. In Cheesus Christ un uomo viene pugnalato a morte in un fast food dopo aver ordinato un hamburger senza formaggio. La vicenda ha conseguenze imprevedibili e apocalittiche – il famoso effetto farfalla – che riflettono ironicamente il caos e la casualità dell’esistenza. Una delle trentotto divertentissime storie brevi contenute in questo volume si dichiara esplicitamente e senza pudore come “il racconto migliore del libro”. Promette al lettore una Mazda Lantis grigia metallizzata in premio se lo legge in maniera corretta, e comunque un modello più economico se non lo legge in maniera corretta, perché è un racconto che vuol far sentire bene il lettore, che non vuole creargli complessi di inferiorità. Questi sono solo alcuni dei racconti che compongono la raccolta di Etgar Keret, un libro spassoso che ha conquistato il mondo.

Terra di profondi contrasti, Israele, anche in letteratura. I racconti qui presentati parlano di sentimenti forti: odio, guerra, sangue e violenza. Eppure non mancano l'amore per le proprie radici, le passioni cocenti, la sensualità.

From the man the 'New Yorker' declared 'a genius', here is a ridiculously enjoyable, tragicomic collection of essays about raising a son and losing a father.

"Witty, wise, and wild, Etgar Keret's stories are a powerful fictional punch, snapshots that illuminate the dark absurdities, sublime beauty, and hidden truths in everyday life."--Provided by publisher

"There{u2019}s no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move... 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. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive."--Provided by publisher

The first children's book to appear in English by the award-winning Israeli master storyteller What happens when a tired boy with a fertile imagination is left to fend for himself at the zoo? Well, if his father is too busy to play and must talk business on his phone, and it's close to naptime, then ... a lot. After freeing sad animals from their cages, the boy takes a ride in an airship with an old turtle and a lazy rhinoceros. Once on board he describes to Habakkuk, the ship's captain, the traits of the rarely seen long-haired cat-boy cub: Long-haired cat-boy cubs need to be played with once an hour to stay alive. Also, you cannot wash a long-haired cat-boy cub in water, they only like to drink juice and chocolate milk, and, most of all, you must listen to a long-haired cat-boy cub's story to the end even if you get a call from work. Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub is a clever and captivating tale that will appeal to any cub who has busy parents and a busier imagination.

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.

These two new voices from Israel and Palestine have no common political agenda (they don't talk about politics to each other), but share a stated desire to make the conflict more complex for their readers. Complex as human life is complex: maddening, contradictory, filled with conflicting emotions, weaknesses, dreams, failings. For those who have not travelled to this region, your only recourse is literature, which addresses why the conflict is so intractable and why the dehumanisation of the enemy through slogans makes the desired resolution so impossible. The wit, daring, and sheer bloody-minded audacity of these marvellous stories makes it, for me, the book of the year for anyone who prefers to listen to the voices of the people of this region instead of the sound of their own rhetoric.

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