The Girl on the Fridge: Stories

Etgar Keret

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date: Apr 15th, 2008
Pages: 192
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.32in - 5.54in - 0.50in - 0.38lb
EAN: 9780374531058
Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• World Literature - Middle East - Israel

About the Author

Keret, Etgar: - Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan and now lives in Tel Aviv. A recipient of the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, the Charles Bronfman Prize, and the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, he is the author of the memoir The Seven Good Years and short story collections including Suddenly, a Knock on the Door and The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God. His work has been translated into forty-five languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, among many other publications.

Praise for this book

"Keret is a brilliant writer . . . completely unlike any writer I know. He is the voice of the next generation." --Salman Rushdie

"Keret may be the most important writer working in Israel right now; certainly he is the closest observer of its post-intifada, post-Oslo spiritual condition. And astonishingly, he is also the Israeli writer closest to the literary tradition of pre-Israel, pre- Holocaust European Jewry . . . Kafka said that literature should be an ax to break the frozen sea within us. Keret is a writer whaling at the ice with a Wiffle ball bat." --Stephen Marche, The Forward

"Short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't--Etgar Keret is a writer to be taken seriously." --Yann Martel

"Keret can do more with six . . . paragraphs than most writers can with 600 pages." --Kyle Smith, People