Etgar Keret | אתגר קרת
Legal name: אתגר קרת
Transliterated name: Keret, Etgar
Birth place: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel
Birth date: 20 August 1967
Language: Hebrew
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The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories
2004
< First edition, January 2004
The Toby Press
ISBN 1-59264-105-9
Trade paperback, 200 pages
$12.95
Notes:
• Translated by Miriam Schlesinger.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: The Story About a Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God // Goodman // Hole in the Wall // A Souvenir of Hell
// Uterus // Breaking the Pig // Cocked and Locked // The Flying Santinis // Korbi's Girl // Shoes // Missing
Kissinger // Rabin's Dead // Plague of the Firstborn // Siren // Good Intentions // Katzenstein // The Mysterious
Disappearance of Alon Shemesh // Jetlag // The Son of the Head of the Mossad // Pipes // Kneller's Happy
Campers // One Last Story and That's It
The Girl on the Fridge
2008
< First edition, April 2008
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
ISBN 978-0-374-53105-8
Trade paperback, 171 pages
$13.00
Notes:
• Selections from Keret's four Hebrew short-story collections.
• Translated by Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: Asthma Attack // Crazy Glue // Loquat // Hat Trick // An Exclusive // Painting // Yordan // Vacuum Seal
// The Girl on the Fridge // World Champion // No Politics // The Real Winner of the Preliminary Games // Cramps
// A No-Magician Birthday // Through Walls // Quanta // One Hundred Percent // Not Human Beings // Freeze! //
Alternative // Without Her // Sidewalks // Slimy Schlomo Is a Homo // Terminal // Journey // Nothing // Myth Milk
// The Night the Buses Died // Moral Something // Happy Birthday to You // The Backgammon Monster // On the
Nutritional Value of Dreams // Monkey Say, Monkey Do // Gulliver in Icelandic // Cheerful Colors // Goody Bags //
My Best Friend // Boomerang // So Good // Raising the Bar // Vladimir Hussein // Knockoff Venus // Atonement
// Patience // Gaza Blues // The Summer of ’76
The Nimrod Flip-Out
2006
< First edition, 4 April 2006
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
ISBN 0-374-22243-6
Trade paperback, vi+167 pages
$12.00
Notes:
• Selections from Keret's four Hebrew short-story collections.
• Translated by Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: Fatso // The Nimrod Flip-Out // Shooting Tuvia // One Kiss on the Mouth in Mombasa // Your Man // One
Good Deed a Day // Shriki // Eight Per Cent of Nothing // Pride and Joy // Surprise Egg // Dirt // Dorable //
Glittery Eyes // Teddy Trunk // Malffunction // Man Without a Head // Halibut // For Only 9.99 (Inc. Tax and
Postage) // Horsie // My Girlfriend's Naked // Bottle // A Visit to the Cockpit // A Thought in the Shape of a Story
// Gur's Theory of Boredom // The Tits of an Eighteen-Year-Old // Bwoken // Baby // Ironclad Rules // A
Good-looking Couple // Angle // Himme // Second Chance
Fly Already
2018
< First English language edition, 3 September 2019
Riverhead Books
ISBN 0-374-22243-6
Hardcover, 224 pages
$27.00
Notes:
• Translated by Sondra Silverston, Nathan Englander, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, and Yardenne Greenspan.
• Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize and the 2019 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: Fly Already // One Gram Short // The Next-to-Last Time I Was Shot Out of a Cannon // Todd // Tabula
Rasa // Car Concentrate // At Night // Windows // To the Moon and Back // GooDeed // Crumb Cake // Dad
with Mashed Potatoes // Arctic Lizard // Ladder // Yad Vashem // The Birthday of a Failed Revolutionary //
Allergies // Fungus // Chips // Home // Pineapple Crush // Evolution of a Breakup
Missing Kissinger
1994
< First English language edition, March 2008
Vintage
ISBN 978-0-099-49816-2
Trade paperback, 224 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
• Translated by Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (partially determined).
Fiction: Breaking the Pig // So Good // Missing Kissinger // The Hollow Men // A No-Magician Birthday // Hat Trick
// Hole in the Wall // Sidewalks // World Champion // Painting // My Brother's Depressed // The Sad Story of the
Anteater Family // The Monkey's Uncle // Cocked and Locked // Korbi's Girl // Good Intentions // Clean Shave //
Bubbles // Dinosaur Eggs // Hope They Die // Raising the Bar // The Real Winner of the Preliminary Games // A
Foreign Language // Drops // Shoes // My Best Friend // The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of // Cramps // King
of the Barbers // Abram Cadabram // Venus Lite // Through Walls // The Flying Santinis // One Hundred Percent
// The Girl on the Refrigerator // Atonement // Gaza Blues // An Exclusive // Magicians School // Ants // Freeze!
// Another Option // Without Her // Buffalo // Patience // The Summer of '76
