I am in awe of Keret's ability to simultaneously make me laugh while crying, explore the joy and horror of every day life with precision, brevity and great psychological depth. His recognition of and engagement with the absurd is profound and he never loses his humanity, his heart long the way

- AM Homes,

Brilliantly edgy, unsettling, Kafkaesque and often very funny

- Joyce Carol Oates,

A reminder that writing can be accessible, creative, intelligent, transgressive, challenging, funny - and popular - all at the same

- Graeme Simsion,

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Reading Fly Already is like settling down for a ride in a luxurious car with a world-class driver who has an extremely crazy worldview that doesn't interfere with his amazing driving. Is there any better way to see the world?

- Elif Batuman,

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you want the joy of company? Don't worry, just buy up people's birthdays, and you'll have friends calling every day. You need to get girls into bed? Don't worry, your writer friend will write you a very persuasive story. You're standing on the edge of a very high building, with all of your wretched sorrows? Don't worry, fly already! In these 22 short stories, wild capers reveal painful emotional truths, and the bizarre is just another name for the familiar. Wickedly funny and thrillingly smart, Fly Already is a collage of absurdity, despair and love, written by veteran commentator on the circus farce that is life.
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A collection of sharp, bittersweet, hilarious short stories, from a 'genius' (New York Times) who 'falls somewhere between Kafka and Seinfeld' (Les Inrockuptibles)

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781783780518
Publisert
2020-10-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Granta Books
Vekt
158 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

ETGAR KERET is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. His writing has been published in the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Esquire. He is the author of five bestselling story collections, which have been translated into 46 languages, an award-winning film called Jellyfish, and a celebrated memoir, The Seven Good Years (Granta, 2015). www.etgarkeret.com