Nimrod Flipout
Etgar Keret
Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
"e;The best work of literature to come out of Israel in the last five thousand years-better than Leviticus and nearly as funny."e; -Gary Shteyngart, New York Times-bestselling author From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer-"e;Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't"e; (Yann Martel, Man Booker Prize-winning author).Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation."e;Keret can do more with six strange and funny paragraphs than most writers can do with 600 pages."e; -Kyle Smith, People "e;Possibly the most absurd, funniest book ever to address suicide bombings . . . Each story is like a tightly wound joke, a concise and targeted observation that slays because of the truth of its content and the expertise in the execution."e; -Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago"e;These stories exude a force and zing that some readers will find life-changing."e; -Jesse Berrett, San Francisco Chronicle"e;If there were a fiction genre combining wit, wild imagination, penetrating insights, fantasy (sexual and otherwise) and the paranormal, Keret would dominate it like Stephen King dominates horror . . . Keret's a strange genius."e; -Kevin Walker, The Tampa Tribune
