5 Englanninkielistä pokkaria (Keret, Lethem ja Yleisteos)

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Etgar Keret: The Nimrod Flip-Out

Etgar Keret: The Seven Good Years

Simon Flynn: The Science Magpie: Fascinating Facts, Stories

Jonathan Lethem: Lucky Alan & Other Stories

Etgar Keret: 

Kneller's Happy Campers

 

Etgar Keret: The Nimrod Flip-Out

Kirjassa on pieni kastumistahra yläkulmassa ja hieman käytön jälkeä

Kieli: Englanti

SIvut: 220

In this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, Israel's bestselling Etgar Keret chronicles the strange ironies that suffuse his characters' lives. Daring, illuminating, intense and poignant, these stories are as painfully funny as they are brief and cover a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain, confirming Keret's status as Israel's national conscience.

As Keret is Israeli, it's easy to read his fiction as political allegory... But it's equally easy not to, and simply to delight in a collection of funny, sad, spirited and entertaining stories. 5 stars -- Laurence Phelan ? Independent on Sunday

Etgar Keret's short stories are fierce, funny, full of energy and insight, and at the same time they are often deep, tragic and very moving -- Amos Oz

Etgar Keret is the voice young Israel ? Independent

Don't ask questions: just enjoy...Exhilarating ? Guardian

A wildly, wonderfully optimistic collection ? Times Literary Supplement

 

Etgar Keret: The Seven Good Years

Siistissä kunnossa.

Sivut: 172

Kieli: Englanti

Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the Iranian president Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitic remarks both real and imagined, and, perhaps most worrisome of all, a dogged telemarketer who seems likely to chase him to the grave. Emerging from these darkly absurd circumstances is a series of funny, tender ruminations on everything from his three-year-old son's impending military service to the terrorist mindset behind Angry Birds. Moving deftly between the personal and the political, the playful and the profound, The Seven Good Years takes a life-affirming look at the human need to find good in the least likely places, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our capricious world.

'Comic, surreal and disorientating... Close in spirit to Woody Allen, these 36 pin-sharp snapshots of life on the permanent knife-edge of what Israelis call hamatzav - 'the situation' - temper nervous comedy with aching tenderness.' -- Boyd Tonkin, Independent

'Keret is a master: bracing, compassionate, so absolutely himself' -- Observer

'Hilarious, hopeful, rueful, and wise, the essays together forms a moving exploration of identity: what it means to be a father, a son, a brother, a husband, a writer, a Jew, an Israeli. A warm-hearted delight in life's absurdities threaded through with acute sensitivity to its sorrows' -- Financial Times

'Keret is one of the outstanding writers of his generation...These short pieces about Keret's daily life in Tel Aviv capture the strangeness of living in a country constantly threatened by violence but they also allow the normality of ordinary life to shine through' --Jewish Chronicle

'The Seven Good Years feels very much like the work of a writer coming to maturity... Keret himself wrote his first short story while serving in the Israeli military, and the comic, self-deprecating style of The Seven Good Years is infused with the melancholy knowledge that conflict is likely to be a constant for Lev [his son], too. War in these essays isn't dramatic or heroic, but something akin to rain in the British summertime, just a miserable backdrop against which the rest of life is played out. The Seven Good Years brings the central conflict of our times - which can seem comfortingly remote - right into the living room. This is a vision of life everyone can relate to' --Guardian

'Contemplating his life against a backdrop of constant conflict, The Seven Good Years is quite simply a wonderful and beautifully-written observation of the monumental and the mundane...The Seven Good Years is so much more than an exposure of Israel's underbelly; both heartwarming and chilling, Keret's stories have an empathic curiosity and affection for other human beings which truly sets him apart...There really is a deep sense of warmth running through almost every page of The Seven Good Years. There is a universal sense of humour and poignant wisdom' -- ABC Brisbane

'The book [in which she is quoted] is a delight, but a melancholy one; for the approaching bad years - which appear inevitable - are man-made, and therefore redeemable.' - Clive Sinclair, TLS

'A pleasure to read' -- Bookseller

'I love Etgar Keret. I adore Etgar Keret. Indeed, if my Hebrew were up to scratch, I would happily translate Etgar Keret for the rest of my life, for free, for the benefit of mankind... Keret excels in tales of the unexpected and the absurd... He is one of the funniest, most exhilarating and delightfully surprising writers currently working in any language' --Ian Samson, New Statesman

 

Simon Flynn: The Science Magpie: Fascinating Facts, Stories

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The Science Magpie: A Miscellany of Paradoxes, Explications, Lists, Lives and Ephemera from the Wonderful World of Science (Icon Magpie)

'Simon Flynn's cornucopia of curious facts, anecdotes and quotations ... is sure to entertain and surprise.' -- New Scientist 'For anyone who likes science and is a fan of Schott's original miscellany, this book is a must. It is full of quirky, interesting scientific facts and anecdotes from across science and its history ... Quite frankly, I loved it. It's great fun and doesn't take itself too seriously.' -- Chemistry World '[A] lighthearted dash through science ... offering lots of curiosities that you will be itching to tell those around you.' * The Biologist * 'Simon Flynn's grab-bag of stories from all branches of science exudes enthusiasm, breathing fresh life into a venerable format.' -- Physics World 'This book is a cabinet of scientific curiosities ... [The Science Magpie] will stimulate good topics of conversation for the pub.

 

 

Jonathan Lethem: Lucky Alan & Other Stories

Siistissä kunnossa.

Kieli: Englanti

Sivut: 158


A father’s nervous breakdown during a visit to a theme park; a political prisoner confined to a hole in a busy New York street; a haunted 'blog' … Welcome to Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting – a place where the uncanny can be found lurking in the mundane, where humour and poignancy work in harmony, and a modern master of American letters entertains and dazzles us once again, as only he can.

Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College.

He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger.

He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine.

His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

 

 

Etgar Keret:  Kneller's Happy Campers

Kirjassa kulumaa ja käytön jälkeä sekä tahra sivulla 49.

Pages:  96 pages

Master short story writer Etgar Keret turns his hand to a longer tale, Kneller’s Happy Campers, which was recently turned into the cult film Wristcutters: A Love Story, starring Tom Waits and Shannon Sossamon.