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Etgar Keret
Author
Language
English
Description
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:...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller. 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...
4) Fly already
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
There'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.... 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...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For this entertainingly intimate documentary portrait of renowned Israeli writer Etgar Keret, filmmaker Gur Bentwich accompanies his longtime friend on a whirlwind book tour to the Big Apple. Between readings and interviews, Keret ruminates on his life as a writer and the recent death of his father; he also hangs with New York pals including author Nathan Englander and *This American Life's* Ira Glass. By turns poignant, absurd and hilarious, WHAT...
6) Jellyfish
Language
עברית
Formats
Description
Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a bride who breaks her leg escaping a locked toilet stall, ruining her chance at a dream Caribbean honeymoon. And...
10) Noche sin luna
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1a edición en español.
Language
Español
Description
The next morning, Zohar told her mother everything. She told her about how the Moon had gone, about the angry owl, the scary pine trees, the empty streets and the policeman. Most of all, she told her about the man who wanted to befriend the Moon.
11) Tel Aviv noir
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This consistently strong collection showcases a group of Israeli writers who are not well known in the U.S. Definitely one of the highlights in the long-running Akashic series.
Author
Series
Language
Français
Description
À la découverte des traditions et de la culture d'Israël.
Une petite fille apprend à nager avec grand-mère Reisel, dans le périmètre réservé aux croyances orthodoxes. Plus loin, Félix Silvane agent d'assurances, émerge d'un coma profond et réalise qu'il n'a jamais contracté d'assurance pour lui-même. Dans une maison de retraite, une vieille femme serre un oignon dans sa main pour le repas du shabbat alors qu'elle regarde ses enfants...
13) Jellyfish
Author
Language
עברית
Description
Poignant, witty and cinematic, it tells the story of three different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave a portrait of modern Israeli life. Co-directed by famed Israeli writer and This American Life contributor Etgar Keret.
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
16) $9.99
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An unemployed 20-something man finds that the answers to the meaning of life can be found in a book. Soon his path crosses some of his more unusual neighbors, all looking for something missing in their lives.
17) Lots of Laughs!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Selected Short's most popular volume! Over three hours of stories to tickle your funny bone. Nicholson Baker's "Subsoil" performed by Thomas Gibson A darkly comic thriller about a tractor historian besieged by man-eating potatoes. David Schickler's "Jamaica" performed by Isaiah Sheffer A man with his head stuck between the banisters has no choice but to listen in on his wife's "Gorgon Book Club." Neil Gaiman's "Chivalry" performed by Christina Pickles...
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