Etgar Keret
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Israeli crime fiction that “sets the bar high for subsequent Noir offerings. The genre is hot, Tel Aviv is exotic, and this volume is outstanding” (Library Journal, starred review).
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched with the summer ’04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set...
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched with the summer ’04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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"--
3) Fly already
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a small boy is left by his busy father to entertain himself at the zoo, his imagination carries him to an airship, where he helps the captain put sad zoo animals back into their natural environment and teaches him about the traits of the rare long-haired cat-boy cub.
11) Jellyfish
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2008
Language
עברית
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...
Author
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Mordy is a 20-something slacker who's killed himself, only to discover that the afterlife for suicides is rather like his previous existence, except with everyone's mortal injuries visible. He's got a job in a pizzeria, and a bunch of go-nowhere friends ... but then his old roommate, who's thrown himself out a window, turns up and tells Mordy that the girl he killed himself over has also done herself in. Mordy and his pal Uzi head off on a not-particularly-vigorous...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hunan mei shu chu ban she
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文
Description
When a small boy is left by his busy father to entertain himself at the zoo, his imagination carries him to an airship, where he helps the captain put sad zoo animals back into their natural environment and teaches him about the traits of the rare long-haired cat-boy cub.
