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Riverhead
June 2015
On Sale: June 16, 2015
192 pages
ISBN: 1594633266
EAN: 9781594633263
Kindle: B00OYXWKDY
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a
“genius” (The New York Times) and master
storyteller.
The seven years between the birth of
Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good
years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in
the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer.
The threat of constant war looms over their home and
permeates daily life.
What emerges from this dark
reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on
everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending
military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry
Birds. There’s Lev’s insistence that he is a cat, releasing
him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar’s
siblings, all very different people who have chosen
radically divergent paths in life, come together after his
father’s shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a
family together forever. This wise, witty memoir—Etgar’s
first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his
inimitable style—is full of wonder and life and love,
poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.
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