Keret, Etgar

Summary: Combines absurd, humorous, and poignant themes that reveal the fierce humanity of characters in surreal situations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KER

Keret, Etgar

Summary: "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. Levis 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KERET, ETGAR KER

Summary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JEL

Summary: Collects articles, interviews, poems, and stories on romance, friendship, and self-care from the online magazine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305 ROO

Summary: Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists. Zia discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that Desiree has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WRI

Contents: Disc 1: Subsoil / Nicholson Baker ; read by Thomas Gibson -- Farrell's caddy / John Updike ; read by Charles Keating -- Disc 2: Jamaica / David Schickler ; read by Isaiah Sheffer -- Chivalry / Neil Gaiman ; read by Christina Pickles -- Disc 3. Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels ; read by David Rakoff -- On the U.S.S. Fortitude / Ron Carlson ; read by Laura Esterman -- Fatso / Etgar...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2004

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SEL