Description
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 irreverence, surprises, existential unease, hope and humanity we have come to expect from Etgar Keret - one of the most original and entertaining storytellers at work today.
A wildly inventive new collection of tales from the international master of surreal short fiction
About the Author
Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, ETGAR KERET is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. He is the author of six bestselling story collections, which have been published in fifty languages. His writing has been published in the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Esquire. He has also written a number of screenplays, and Jellyfish, his first film as a director alongside 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. His memoir The Seven Good Years was published by Granta in 2015, and the story collection Fly Already in 2019. www.etgarkeret.com
Reviews
How to describe the Israeli writer Etgar Keret's stories? Sci-fi scenarios, vignettes, thought experiments, fables, parables... Hauntingly re-readable * Spectator *
It's hard to think of another writer able to imbue deadpan comedy with the profound range of emotions that Etgar Keret achieves... Essential reading for fractured times * Observer *
Keret's deft lightness of touch, his humour and his acute eye for detail are all present and correct... Autocorrect is everything we'd hoped for from a new Etgar Keret collection * Bookmunch *
Autocorrect isn't so much a book as a library of tiny books, from an author who conveys as well as any I can think of just how much fun you can have with a short story * Guardian *
The beauty of Keret's stories rests with his imaginative playfulness * ArtsHub *
The stories make up a wonderfully varied kind of conversation, which, underneath the intellectual shine, suggests very real worries: about ageing, and relationships, and the pace of cultural change * TLS *
[Autocorrect] conjures a world instantly recognisable then suddenly surreal, packing in comedic dialogue * Scottish Mail on Sunday *
Alien space ships, parallel worlds, rogue virtual reality, reincarnation and the afterlife all play their part in disrupting the lives of Keret's down-to-earth characters who are attempting to deal with love, loss, faith and failure... Deft and inventive * Irish Daily Mail *
Etgar Keret is a genius. Dark and funny and weird and incisive and honest and magical and heartbreaking. He is truly original. I needed this. We all need this -- Francesca Segal
Book Information
ISBN 9781803510682
Author Etgar Keret
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
A wildly inventive new collection of tales from the international master of surreal short fiction
About the Author
Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, ETGAR KERET is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. He is the author of six bestselling story collections, which have been published in fifty languages. His writing has been published in the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Esquire. He has also written a number of screenplays, and Jellyfish, his first film as a director alongside 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. His memoir The Seven Good Years was published by Granta in 2015, and the story collection Fly Already in 2019. www.etgarkeret.com
Reviews
How to describe the Israeli writer Etgar Keret's stories? Sci-fi scenarios, vignettes, thought experiments, fables, parables... Hauntingly re-readable * Spectator *
It's hard to think of another writer able to imbue deadpan comedy with the profound range of emotions that Etgar Keret achieves... Essential reading for fractured times * Observer *
Keret's deft lightness of touch, his humour and his acute eye for detail are all present and correct... Autocorrect is everything we'd hoped for from a new Etgar Keret collection * Bookmunch *
Autocorrect isn't so much a book as a library of tiny books, from an author who conveys as well as any I can think of just how much fun you can have with a short story * Guardian *
The beauty of Keret's stories rests with his imaginative playfulness * ArtsHub *
The stories make up a wonderfully varied kind of conversation, which, underneath the intellectual shine, suggests very real worries: about ageing, and relationships, and the pace of cultural change * TLS *
[Autocorrect] conjures a world instantly recognisable then suddenly surreal, packing in comedic dialogue * Scottish Mail on Sunday *
Alien space ships, parallel worlds, rogue virtual reality, reincarnation and the afterlife all play their part in disrupting the lives of Keret's down-to-earth characters who are attempting to deal with love, loss, faith and failure... Deft and inventive * Irish Daily Mail *
Etgar Keret is a genius. Dark and funny and weird and incisive and honest and magical and heartbreaking. He is truly original. I needed this. We all need this -- Francesca Segal
Book Information
ISBN 9781803510682
Author Etgar Keret
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
