false 2130007 2 <div><div>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&#8212;such are the denizens of Etgar Keret&#8217;s dark and fertile mind. <i>The Girl on the Fridge </i>contains the best of Keret&#8217;s first collections, the ones that made him a household name in Israel and the major discovery of this last decade.</div></div> 191661 2006 The Girl on the Fridge: Stories total:393|5:99|4:133|3:120|2:31|1:10| 393 1459 688 100 4 1 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu May 29 21:49:08 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 16 08:11:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 15:47:14 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 07:49:22 -0700 2009
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The tag did not lie to me. These stories were incredibly unique, unlike anything I've re...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 09:33:46 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 09:35:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 10:50:21 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 11:00:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 11:51:54 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 15:12:03 -0700 2008 The Nimrod Flip-Out. If you're unacquainted with Keret, start with his first American c...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 01:25:10 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 11:12:38 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 04:44:09 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 20:16:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 09:56:47 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 10:03:40 -0700 2009
I don't remember the story he read...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Sep 16 07:35:06 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 06:48:52 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 07:35:06 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:55:34 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 00:59:56 -0700 2009 The Nimrod Flipout Stories so much but don't seem to like any of keret's other books. maybe i just already got the joke or something. the stories are all very clever and sharply written, but i can never really get into them. i never really give a shit. they end and i'm like...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 31 13:17:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 13:17:00 -0800 2008 3 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 09:43:47 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 08:44:56 -0700 2008
Favorites were Asthma Attack, Crazy Glue, Hat Trick (!!!), Vacuum Seal, and The Night the Buses Died. A little magical, a little horrifying: think Calvino plus Twilight Zone. Maybe occasionally a...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 06 10:34:49 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 25 13:03:23 -0800 2009 1 Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance, a collection of love letters from today's leading fiction writers. After making a note to look him up later and then entirely forgetting about it, I was reminded when I saw the striking cov...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 16 12:53:40 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 16 06:44:17 -0800 2008
There's the story about all of the city buses "dy...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 18:12:42 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 21 10:06:27 -0700 2009 Pizzeria Kamikaze, the graphic novel Keret wrote, but I think at least 93% of my enjoyment there was based on Asaf Hanuka’s amazingly beautiful and evocative art. Without it, there were often things about Keret’s stories that I found admirabl...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 18:12:52 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 18:17:05 -0700 2009
What Egar Keret does in a few short paragraphs is more than most writers pack into a few long chapters.

One review described his work as 'deceptively casual' and i couldn't agree more...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 03 05:02:12 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 23:05:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 15:23:03 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 21:37:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 06:08:07 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 06:10:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2130007