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The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories

Etgar Keret

Paperback | Pages: 130 pages

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ISBN:	1592641059 (ISBN13: 9781592641055)
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Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain-from a father's first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. Bus Driver includes stories from Keret's bestselling collections in Israel, Pipelines and Missing Kissinger, as well as Keret's major new novella, "Kneller's Happy Campers," a bitingly satirical yet wistful road trip set in the afterlife for suicides.

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Title	:	The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
Author	:	Etgar Keret
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	USA / UK / EUR / CAN
Pages	:	Pages: 130 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2004 by Toby Press (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Israel. Literature. Jewish

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It's definitely different, and some of the stories are great, but there are a lot of mediocre ones too. Kneller's Happy Campers like the film adaptation, Wristcutters is really wonderful.

The first collection of short stories by Israeli writer Etgar Keret published in English starts out brilliantly, with several surreal and fantastic tales that seem to be a witches' brew of the best of Jorge Luis Borges, mixed with a splash of Julio Cortázar and José Donoso. In the title story, a principled but misunderstood bus driver invokes a higher calling to serve one of his passengers, though with an unexpected result. In "Uterus", a young man despairs when his mother's organ, preserved for

Some pretty amusing stories and some mildly annoying stories. I liked the last one best, which was about an after-life populated exclusively by suicides, including a suicide messiah and a dead rock star named Kurt and some bummed out suicide bombers. That story was the longest, so maybe the other stories were just to short for me to get into before they ended.



I don't think that this book should be read in one or two sittings. Reading these very short stories one right after another starts to take something away from the stories. Since most of the stories are only a couple of pages long, there is only so many times in a short period of time when I could enjoy ironic twists. I wanted to throw myself on the ground and beg for no more irony.

Great ideas, not especially great writing. Very casual, off-the-cuff style. His stories often feel more like sketches or treatments. The TV version of George Saunders perhaps? And like TV, I sat on the couch consuming this unsure how much I was getting out of it.2.5+

The stories by Etgar Keret are great, hate the quality of the translation though.