Full name: The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

Author: Etgar Keret Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781594633249 159463324X

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 boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. 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 Similar books: The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus Escapes by Joy Williams Airships by Barry Hannah The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy Tumble Home by Amy Hempel Jigs & Reels by Joanne Harris The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt Barking Man by Madison Smartt Bell The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Never Trust A Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson