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Weisberg on Etgar Keret
Joseph Weisberg pretty much nails it starting his review of Etgar Keret’s most recenly published collection of stories:
“The Israeli writer Etgar Keret is a genius, although it’s not entirely apparent in “The Girl on the Fridge,” his new story collection. “New” in this case means newly published, not newly written.”
He goes on to clarify that these stories were written when Keret was much younger than when he wrote the book many of us know him for. The difference between this book and The Nimrod Flipout are great, but mostly because the latter is a truly great collection of stories by a writer who has been at it for more than two decades. The stories in The Girl on the Fridge have their own great qualities, particularly their raw anger (I’m waiting until I finish The Bus Driver who Wanted to be God before I have more to say about Keret) but as Weisberg concludes:
After reading that book The Nimrod Flipout, you’re likely to be a Keret fan, maybe a big enough one to wonder how his singular talent first took shape. That’s the time to read The Girl on the Fridge.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: May 16, 2008
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