This collection of short stories is easily one of the most memorable, moving and laugh-aloud-funny books you'll read in a long time

Many of the very short stories in this collection are more thought-provoking than the average novel

A collection of short, surreal fragments that place the reader in peculiar and often moving worlds

A beguiling, savagely funny collection of stories...he'll leave you with more questions than answers but you'll feel all the better for it

These are 46 horror stories from Israel, though they acrobatically shape-shift from the political to the fabulous, and are outwardly comic... I enjoyed these wild, blackly inventive pieces very much at times

Etgar Keret is a writer to be taken seriously

Keret's surreal conceits are couched in a wry, downbeat language...The effect is something like a sorrowful hybrid of Kafka and Donald Barthelme: deadpan on the surface, with a bassnote of discomfort and emotional alienation that makes even the briefest tales snag in the mind...Each piece is at once universal and particular...world-class gems. The translation is brilliant, too

Etgar Keret is the voice of young Israel

One of the greatest short story writers alive

One of the most important writers alive... enchantingly witty

Etgar Keret's extraordinary imagination sets the reader free from slogans and headlines

One of the greatest short story writers alive