Two writers, Israeli Etgar Keret and Palestinian Samir el-Youssef have engaged in a challenging and provocative artistic collaboration, producing a book of short stories and a novella exploring different aspects of a fraught and complex situation.

A collection of bite-sized satirical tales in which Kerrett covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain peopled by such characters as a man surprised by a pessimistic talking fish, a little girl who covets her friend's glittering eyes, and a faithful dog that won't disappear, even after being shot.

Etgar Keret brings all of his talent to bear in this collection. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from the real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that all the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside.

Featuring stories in which many of the characters are waiting for something to change their lives, 'Missing Kissinger' describes the search for ultimate happiness. As is often the case, the unexpected can - and usually does - occur.

'Kneller's Happy Campers' is a strange, dark but funny tale set in a world very much like our own but it is an afterlife populated by people who have killed themselves. Many of them are young, and most of them bear the marks of their death bullet wounds, broken necks (those who have over-dosed are known as Juliets).

Classic warped and wonderful stories from a genius (The New York Times) and master storyteller.

Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain from a father s first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught up in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much...

A collection of sharp, bittersweet, hilarious short stories, from a 'genius' (New York Times) who 'falls somewhere between Kafka andSeinfeld'(Les Inrockuptibles)

Imagine a world in which you could take back the stupid thing you just said, unspill the coffee, avoid the accident, roll life back thirty seconds and do it over again - this time the right way. In Etgar Keret's universe, all things are possible. A man can take a yoga class that genuinely transforms his life. A son has the chance to redo a fateful exchange with his father. An alien can offer a guided tour of the destroyed earth. And an angry squirrel can wreck a wedding. Ranging from sci-fi scenarios to fictional thought-experiments and short vignettes, the stories here all deliver the...