According to Gary Shteyngart, The Nimrod Flipout is "the best work of literature to come out of Israel in the last five thousand years -- better than Leviticus and nearly as funny."
Keret reminds me of an Israeli George Saunders. He writes stories that are short, satirical, and off-kilter, with a funny narrative voice. They have a casual, tossed-off quality that works against them when they don't land. I thought that about half of the 30 stories worked. Many of the others seemed like preparatory sketches, especially when similar themes and characters recurred in adjacent stories.
Keret reminds me of an Israeli George Saunders. He writes stories that are short, satirical, and off-kilter, with a funny narrative voice. They have a casual, tossed-off quality that works against them when they don't land. I thought that about half of the 30 stories worked. Many of the others seemed like preparatory sketches, especially when similar themes and characters recurred in adjacent stories.
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