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Although wildly popular in his native Israel, this collection is the first of Keret's work to be published in the US. Two-thirds of the small book is given over to 22 equally small short stories, all ranging from 5-8 pages or so. These stories are difficult to characterize, although they generally feature alienated males (often children or teenagers), and the writing is universally deft and satirically witty with an underlying tone of irony and sorrow-occasionally drifting into unreality. Any de
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I was so excited for this collection. There is so much hype surrounding Etgar Keret and his stories. Maybe the hype was part of the downfall for me here, maybe I expected too much. These stories were mediocre at best in my mind. A lot of them just seemed like 'here are my thoughts today' with no story and underdeveloped characters. In fact I think that might have been part of my problem with the stories (along with the hype surrounding him) these hardly qualified as stories in my mind. He did sa
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I liked the Nimrod Flip-Out better.
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