Master short-story writer Etgar Keret turns his hand to a longer tale - 'The darkest fun I've had in ages' (Matt Haig)
Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is one of the leading voices in Israeli literature and cinema. He is the author of five bestselling collections, which have been translated into twenty-nine languages. His writing has been published in the New York Times, le Monde, the Guardian, the Paris Review and Zoetrope. He has also written a number of award-winning screenplays, and Jellyfish, the first film that he directed -along with his wife Shira Geffen - won the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 he was awarded the Chevalier medallion of France's Order of Arts and Letters.
Etgar Keret's writing hits like a bullet. Kneller's Happy Campers
is fast and bizarre and full of a fearless street-punk surrealism,
as though Charles Bukowski is channelling the imagination of Lewis
Carroll. The darkest fun I've read in ages
*Matt Haig*
Keret mixes the laconic style of Raymond Carver and the insane wit
of Quentin Tarantino into his own particular, melancholy
combination of themes... It's not just a story about people who
have taken their lives, but rather a metaphor on how the
post-ideological generation is trying to live and survive in this
world
*Spiegel*
There is a subtle mix of innocence and awareness, of caustic irony
and tender humour that emerges from this text, as well as from its
brilliant author
*Le Monde*
I think he is a brilliant writer, entirely different from any other
I know. He is the voice of the next generation
*Salman Rushdie*
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