The Nimrod Flip-Out

The Nimrod Flip-Out

by EtgarKeret (Author)

Synopsis

In this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, Israel's bestselling Etgar Keret chronicles the strange ironies that suffuse his characters' lives. Daring, illuminating, intense and poignant, these stories are as painfully funny as they are brief and cover a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain, confirming Keret's status as Israel's national conscience.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Jun 2006

ISBN 10: 0099497220
ISBN 13: 9780099497226
Book Overview: Warped and wonderful short stories from Israel's hippest young writer.

Media Reviews
As Keret is Israeli, it's easy to read his fiction as political allegory... But it's equally easy not to, and simply to delight in a collection of funny, sad, spirited and entertaining stories. 5 stars -- Laurence Phelan * Independent on Sunday *
Etgar Keret's short stories are fierce, funny, full of energy and insight, and at the same time they are often deep, tragic and very moving -- Amos Oz
Etgar Keret is the voice young Israel * Independent *
Don't ask questions: just enjoy...Exhilarating * Guardian *
A wildly, wonderfully optimistic collection * Times Literary Supplement *
Author Bio
Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is one of the leading voices in Israeli literature and cinema. He is the author of five bestselling collections, which have been translated into twenty-nine languages. His writing has been published in the New York Times, le Monde, the Guardian, the Paris Review and Zoetrope. He has also written a number of award-winning screenplays, and Jellyfish, his first film as a director along with his wife Shira Geffen, won the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 he was awarded the Chevalier medallion of France's Order of Arts and Letters.