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From Israel's many renouned and acclaimed immature writer--"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively infrequent in tinge and affect, stories that sound like a fun yet aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)
Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these brief stories embody a masculine who finds equal pleasure in his pleasing partner and a fat, soccer-loving lummox she turns into after dark; timorous parents; a box of unfitness marinated by a pet terrier; and a desperate Middle Eastern articulate fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an unusual collection from a preeminent Israeli author of his generation.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #122987 in Books
- Published on: 2006-04-04
- Released on: 2006-04-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .49" h x 6.74" w x 8.32" l, .35 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 167 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Keret, an Israeli author who also writes children's books and collaborates with illustrators on striking stories and novels, specializes in brainteasing brief brief stories suggestive of a "Shouts and Murmurs" territory of a New Yorker—30 are packaged in this skinny volume. A standard Keret conditions is enacted in "Your Man": a anecdotist finds that his girlfriends inexplicably mangle adult with him in a behind of taxicabs while a radio always announces a tourist from a certain address. He goes to a address, finds photos of his exes tacked to a wall and erupts in violence, with repercussions that give new definition to masochism. Dogs play a purpose in Keret's stories identical to a wily purpose they assume in Thurber cartoons, hovering between a illusory and a everyday, and sex is an mania ("Actually, I've Had Some Phenomenal Hardons Lately" is one story's title.) In "Fatso," a man's partner confides a secret: she turns into a circular masculine during night. Like French surrealist Marcel Aymé, Keret keeps his stories one dimensional, yet it's a dimension he has mastered, one that peels divided a borderlines of normalcy. (Apr.)
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From Booklist
Once we know that Keret's work has been featured on NPR's This American Life and Selected Shorts, it becomes tough to consider of these 30 pieces as brief stories. The adenoidal 35--going-on-13 tones of a former program's horde abrade in a mind like a voices of Woody Allen, Shelley Berman, and other ur-stand-ups, and a deceive is parted. These aren't stories, they're routines! They're mostly told in a third chairman by a same kind of guys (once, gal) as a protagonists: schlemiels, yet a singles among them are also slackers.^B They're complicated immature Israelis fixated on sex, incompetent to make durability connections, undone to still madness, and feeble as . . . a stand-up's persona. Most of their stories are could-be realistic, a few are eventually sentimental, and a best are arguably a fantasies, such as a volume opener, whose protagonist has a partner ("the sex is dynamite") who becomes a fat, hairy, party-animal man during night, and is still as most fun to be with. Vulgar, sad-sacky stuff, yet amusing. Ray Olson
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Review
"His enchantingly smart stories advise that a penetrating comprehension can still develop even when a atmosphere is full of drifting steel ... Our best possibility is that Etgar Keret will turn a craze, a disturb for sanity." --Clive James
"The best work of novel to come out of Israel in a final 5 thousand years--better than Leviticus and scarcely as funny. Each page is a cut and discriminating gem. Do yourself a favor, travel over to a opposite and buy this book now." --Gary Shteyngart, author of THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE'S HANDBOOK
"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively infrequent in tinge and effect, stories that sound like a fun yet aren't--Etgar Keret is a author to be taken seriously."
--Yann Martel, author of THE LIFE OF PI
"Keret's brief stories are filled with antiheroes. There are no dauntless Maccabees, no swashbuckling warriors. Instead, his sketches exaggerate a paltry sum of daily life. "When we arise adult in a morning," he says, "before you've had your initial crater of coffee, what we consider about is not, Why isn't there a Palestinian state? You say, 'Why doesn't my partner adore me?' Or 'I wish somebody didn't take my car.' "
Stories can be dreams, of a sort, and Keret's seem to guarantee that there is some-more to life than Merkava tanks and self-murder killers, some-more even than nanotech or IPOs. His quirky collections--which have sole some-more than 200,000 copies in Israel--offer a glance into a Israeli subconscious. They prove jumbled, common hopes--not a high-blown fantasies of a strange frontiersmen." --Kevin Peraino, Newsweek
"Etgar Keret's brief stories are fierce, funny, full of appetite and insight, and during a same time they are mostly deep, tragic, and really moving." --Amos Oz, author of A Tale of Love and Darkness
"To try to report Keret's work in fewer difference than a work itself is a plan perverse, paradoxical, modern, and strange--in short, it is like an Etgar Keret story, solely not as humorous and not as interesting. So we ask we to open a book and read." --Neal Stephenson, author of Cryptonomicon
"Etgar Keret is a voice of immature Israel . . . [His] stories still seemed to understanding with all a critical things, friendship, sadness, fear . . . Unlike anything else a nation [is] producing." --Linda Grant, The Independent
Customer Reviews
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22 of 23 people found a following examination helpful.
By KH1
There are many illusory brief stories in this collection, _The Nimrod Flipout_, by Israeli author Etgar Keret. There are also many that are suggestive of initial drafts from a night-school artistic essay class. When he's good, Keret is a illusory new talent, full of amusement and existential angst, though when he's not - he's trite, cliche, and tedious - one some-more immature male essay about removing befuddled and laid.
The suggested story "The Nimrod Flipout", is one of a best in a whole collection. Three immature group are possessed, in turn, by a suggestion of their friend, Nimrod, who killed himself after his partner pennyless adult with him. [Variety is also not Keret's clever suit. There are during slightest dual other stories where someone kills themselves since they've been dumped.] After a narrator, a final to stoop to a suggestion of his defunct friend, a possession repeats itself starting over again with Miron, a initial to be possessed. It's a touching story about a excitement of youth, and deeply tragic, as well; a also one of a funniest stories in a collection.
"Fatso", a opening story, we also loved. It is about a male whose partner turns into a fat, drunk, soccer-loving male after a object goes down, and how, after spending many nights going out and examination soccer during a bar with this character, he starts to adore his girlfriend, too.
This collection has a resplendent moments, and is rarely endorsed to fans of brief fiction. However, don't be astounded if some of a stories dissapoint.
21 of 24 people found a following examination helpful.
By endangered reader
Some of these stories are brilliant, initial turn knockouts. Others are shtick-yawns. The best are like a different short-short stories of Spencer Holst. The misfortune are whines from a slacker you'd never listen to for 5 mins if we bumped into them during a bar. Buy a book for a wonderful, though design a unequivocally churned bag.
4 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By P. Willson
Who knew a Magical Realist layer would finish adult in Tel Aviv? (There's no improved place for it!) This is a rather disproportionate collection of brief stories, so a blank star. However, it's intensely singular to find a brief story collection where that isn't a case.
Maybe he gets half a star back, and dull adult to a nearest star, since many of these little fables are impossibly good. Several are snort-wine-out-your-nose funny, some are ideally sly, and others are honeyed or touching though sentimentality. A few lumber along unfulfilled, though only a few. (And they're unequivocally short.)
He's unequivocally a excellent author even in translation, with transparent eyes and no fear.
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