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"It`s been cool, it`s been great…But time`s up, and here you are...But if it’s not too much trouble ... Just one more quick story before you take it away.
"Etgar Keret`s two and three page short stories, with their fabulist conceits and Chekhovian wit, recall the best of Kafka, Issac Babel, certain works of De Maupassant, and all darkly seasoned with the tragic elan of an underground noir comic" - San Francisco Chronicle
"The extraordinary collection… has the kind of writing that could hook a lot of readers, including some who rarely open a book … (Keret) takes readers on a trip full of insight." - Boston Globe
"… wonderfully surreal, laugh-out-loud-funny stories … all of them gems from a singular storyteller." - Elle Magazine
"[Keret`s] stories flick between the banal and the tragic with a satirist`s instinct for the telling detail, the self-revealing comment or gesture. But he is also committed to what [Ted] Hughes terms `the act of metamorphosis … the unendurable intensity that lifts the whole episode onto the supernatural or divine plane,` and it is this that makes his work exceptional" - Times Literary Supplement.
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