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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2001
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • Classic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller.   Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hid...



  • Dad demonstrates that it''s never too late to shine in the spotlight in this quirky book about following your dreams.

    "The circus is in town!" Dad roared.
    "And we''re all going to see it!"

    Audrey and Zach are stil...



  • This collection of five graphic novellas features a drab salesman who falls in love with a Romanian circus aerialist; a young woman who lives next to the entrance to Hell; a magician who loses control of his magic; a piggy bank named Margolis; and a ...



  • From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer -- "Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)Already featured on This American L...



  • A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad--such are the denizens of Etgar Keret's dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge cont...



  • Etgar Keret’s stories are quick, brief and precise -- unhesitatingly moving. They are also hilarious and off-the-wall, yet dark, sometimes violent, and often intensely poignant: a powerful new collection from Israel’s best-selling author....



  • 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....



  • This booklet includes a lecture called Second Generation and four remarkable short stories by Etgar Keret: Asthma Attack, Shoes, Siren, and Foreign Language, the last of which has never before appeared in the United States. Openly discussing his fami...



  • Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret's new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, si...








  • Presented for the first time in full color, award-winning writer Etgar Keret (The Seven Good Years) and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Asaf Hanuka’s (The Realist) powerful graphic novel, Pizzeria Kamikaze, is a most unexpected story of love, loss,...



  • There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to...



  • The first children's book to appear in English by the award-winning Israeli master storytellerWhat happens when a tired boy with a fertile imagination is left to fend for himself at the zoo? Well, if his father is too busy to play and must talk busin...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Etgar Keret has published 13 books.

Etgar Keret does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God: and Other Stories, was published in October 2001.

No. Etgar Keret does not write books in series.