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Keret serves us plenty of good laughs. --New York Times Book Review
...twenty-two short, wonderfully surreal, laugh-out-loud-funny stories ... all of them witty gems from a singular storyteller. --Elle
...hard to resist, with its distinctive mix of insight, humor, tenderness, indelicate language, and a hopeful kind of cynicism...Exceptional. --Boston Globe
...twenty-two short, wonderfully surreal, laugh-out-loud-funny stories ... all of them witty gems from a singular storyteller. --Elle
...hard to resist, with its distinctive mix of insight, humor, tenderness, indelicate language, and a hopeful kind of cynicism...Exceptional. --Boston Globe
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Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English.Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain-from a father's first lesson to his by to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. Bus Driver includes stories from Keret's bestselling collections in Israel, Pipelines and Missing Kissinger, as well as Keret's major new novella, "Kneller's Happy Campers," a bitingly satirical yet wistful road trip set in the afterlife for suicides.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Many of the stories are excellent, with sudden twists at the end to highlight the skill of the author in bringing you to a place that you didn't expect.
Bus Driver is a fairly easy parable, my personal favourite was Breaking the Pig, whereas Kneller's Happy Campers is a bit of a purgatorial oddity - in more ways than one.
If you fancy a change from a long novel, for a few gambits of lateral israel-inspired storytelling, then read this.
Bus Driver is a fairly easy parable, my personal favourite was Breaking the Pig, whereas Kneller's Happy Campers is a bit of a purgatorial oddity - in more ways than one.
If you fancy a change from a long novel, for a few gambits of lateral israel-inspired storytelling, then read this.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God is an enjoyable collection to read. Etgar Keret emerged as witty, penetrating, humurous and very knowing. He is a fresh breath of to short story writing.Short stories by Chekhov, The Usurper and Other Stories, Runaway,Union Moujik are other fine and hilarious books to read.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a selection of stories taken from previous colections by Etgar Keret, but it is his first book published in English. Read it and see why Keret has become such a big name in his own coutry, and such an important role model for younger writers. The stories are short, smart funny and brilliant. Read them now and look out for the one about the pipes.
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Dreadful
A complete waste of money. The writing is poor. The story content is weak. In a word: dreadful!
Published 9 months ago by D. K. Marshall
Love it.
I bought this book when looking for Kneller's Happy Campers. It's the first book i've taken the time to read through in about 5 years. I love Keret's writing it's amazing. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2009 by Master Jamey Macmillan
Don't waste your money
Despits rave reviews, this book is absolutely rubbish. Most of the stories were so short (some less than 2 pages) to have no substance at all. Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2006
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