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Etgar Keret  |  אתגר קרת

Legal name:  אתגר קרת

Transliterated name:  Keret, Etgar

Birth place:  Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel

Birth date:  20 August 1967

Language:  Hebrew

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Collections

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories

2004

< January 2004, 1st edition

The Toby Press

ISBN 1-59264-105-9

Trade paperback, 200 pages

$12.95

Notes:

  •  Translated by Miriam Schlesinger.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).

Fiction: The Story About a Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God  //  Goodman  //  Hole in the Wall  //  A Souvenir of Hell  

//  Uterus  //  Breaking the Pig  //  Cocked and Locked  //  The Flying Santinis  //  Korbi's Girl  //  Shoes  //  Missing

Kissinger  //  Rabin's Dead  //  Plague of the Firstborn  //  Siren  //  Good Intentions  //  Katzenstein  //  The Mysterious

Disappearance of Alon Shemesh  //  Jetlag  //  The Son of the Head of the Mossad  //  Pipes  //  Kneller's Happy

Campers  //  One Last Story and That's It

The Girl on the Fridge

2008

Library edition: April 2008, 1st edition, 5th printing

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux

ISBN 978-0-374-53105-8

Trade paperback, 171 pages

$13.00

Notes:

  •  Selections from Keret's four Hebrew short-story collections.

  •  Translated by Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.

Fiction: Asthma Attack //  Crazy Glue  //  Loquat  //  Hat Trick  //  An Exclusive  //  Painting  //  Yordan  //  Vacuum Seal  

//  The Girl on the Fridge  //  World Champion  //  No Politics  //  The Real Winner of the Preliminary Games  //  Cramps  

//  A No-Magician Birthday  //  Through Walls  //  Quanta  //  One Hundred Percent  //  Not Human Beings  //  Freeze!  //  

Alternative  //  Without Her  //  Sidewalks  //  Slimy Schlomo Is a Homo  //  Terminal  //  Journey  //  Nothing  //  Myth Milk  

//  The Night the Buses Died  //  Moral Something  //  Happy Birthday to You  //  The Backgammon Monster  //  On the

Nutritional Value of Dreams  //  Monkey Say, Monkey Do  //  Gulliver in Icelandic  //  Cheerful Colors  //  Goody Bags  //  

My Best Friend //  Boomerang  //  So Good  //  Raising the Bar  //  Vladimir Hussein  //  Knockoff Venus  //  Atonement  

//  Patience  //  Gaza Blues  //  The Summer of ’76

The Nimrod Flip-Out

2006

< April 2006, 1st edition

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux

ISBN 0-374-22243-6

Trade paperback, vi+167 pages

$12.00

Notes:

  •  Selections from Keret's four Hebrew short-story collections.

  •  Translated by Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).

Fiction:  Fatso  //  The Nimrod Flip-Out  //  Shooting Tuvia  //  One Kiss on the Mouth in Mombasa  //  Your Man  //  One

Good Deed a Day  //  Shriki  //  Eight Per Cent of Nothing  //  Pride and Joy  //  Surprise Egg  //  Dirt  //  Dorable  //  

Glittery Eyes  //  Teddy Trunk  //  Malffunction  //  Man Without a Head  //  Halibut  //  For Only 9.99 (Inc. Tax and

Postage)  //  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 of an Eighteen-Year-Old  //  Bwoken  //  Baby  //  Ironclad Rules  //  A

Good-looking Couple  //  Angle  //  Himme  //  Second Chance

Fly Already

2019

< September 2018, 1st English language edition

Riverhead Books

ISBN 0-374-22243-6

Hardcover, 224 pages

$27.00

Notes:

  •  Translated by Sondra Silverston, Nathan Englander, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, and Yardenne Greenspan.

  •  Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize and the 2019 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).

Fiction: Fly Already  //  One Gram Short  //  The Next-to-Last Time I Was Shot Out of a Cannon  //  Todd  //  Tabula

Rasa  //  Car Concentrate  //  At Night  //  Windows  //  To the Moon and Back  //  GooDeed  //  Crumb Cake  //  Dad

with Mashed Potatoes  //  Arctic Lizard  //  Ladder  //  Yad Vashem  //  The Birthday of a Failed Revolutionary  //  

Allergies  //  Fungus  //  Chips  //  Home  //  Pineapple Crush  //  Evolution of a Breakup

Missing Kissinger

1994

< March 2008, 1st English language edition

Vintage

ISBN 978-0-099-49816-2

Trade paperback, 224 pages

Unknown cover price

Notes:

  •  Translated by Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (partially determined).

Fiction: Breaking the Pig  //  So Good  //  Missing Kissinger  //  The Hollow Men  //  A No-Magician Birthday  //  Hat Trick  

//  Hole in the Wall  //  Sidewalks  //  World Champion  //  Painting  //  My Brother's Depressed  //  The Sad Story of the

Anteater Family  //  The Monkey's Uncle  //  Cocked and Locked  //  Korbi's Girl  //  Good Intentions  //  Clean Shave  //  

Bubbles  //  Dinosaur Eggs  //  Hope They Die  //  Raising the Bar  //  The Real Winner of the Preliminary Games  //  A

Foreign Language  //  Drops  //  Shoes  //  My Best Friend  //  The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of  //  Cramps  //  King

of the Barbers  //  Abram Cadabram  //  Venus Lite  //  Through Walls  //  The Flying Santinis  //  One Hundred Percent  

//  The Girl on the Refrigerator  //  Atonement   //  Gaza Blues  //  An Exclusive  //  Magicians School  //  Ants  //  Freeze!  

//  Another Option  //  Without Her  //  Buffalo  //  Patience  //  The Summer of '76