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»Von all den großartigen Büchern, die Etgar Keret geschrieben hat, ist das sein allerbestes.« Jonathan Safran Foer.

Mit einer grandiosen Kurzgeschichtensammlung meldet sich der israelische Meistererzähler Etgar Keret zurück. Wir begegnen einem sprechenden Goldfisch, der Wünsche erfüllt, einem pathologischen Lügner, der feststellen muss, dass alle seine Lügen wahr sind, und einer Frau, die einen Reißverschluss im Mund ihres Geliebten entdeckt. Etgar Keret kondensiert ganze Leben in ein paar Sätze, witzig, überraschend, immer zugleich surreal und nah an der Wirklichkeit....

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 sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar's three-year-old son's...

A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad--such are the denizens of Etgar Keret's dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge contains the best of Keret's first collections, the ones that made him a household name in Israel and the major discovery of this last decade.

From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer--"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)

Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic...