ETGAR KERET

Etgar Keret in Australia

	Etgar Keret is a short story writer, columnist, comic strip writer, film maker, TV comedy writer and lecturer at the Tel Aviv University. Keret is Israel's best selling and most popular author of the last decade, and is hailed as a major new voice in world literature. To find out where Etgar Keret is speaking around Australia, click on to our Events page.

Etgar Keret's latest book is "The Nimrod Flip-Out" in which he weaves the same twisted magic that was poignant to his first collection of short stories "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God." Readers will be delighted with the witty and succinct fable-like stories on offer. The themes of the stories vary from a boy’s relationship with his immortal dog to a man’s ability to discover the meaning of life, influence people, and become a messiah all through $9.99 mail-orders. Through peculiarly titled stories such as “One Kiss on the Mouth in Mombasa” and “My Girlfriend’s Naked”, Keret gives readers an insight into the confused psyche of the modern individual living in an increasingly confusing modern society. A wonderfully fresh and inspired form of story telling.
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The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God by Etgar Keret Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain in his provocative short stories - from a father's first lesson to his boy, to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict, to a slice of life where nothing much happens.