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Over twenty short, popular, absurd Israeli stories about life in Israel and elsewhere. Maybe it is the translation or the cultural differences, but some of the stories start out with great promise and creative ideas but just fizzle out into absurdity rather than comedy. Most, though, are fine. Pleasingly the stories are short, each about five pages long. There is the one about a woman who runs a grocery at the gate to Hell in Uzbekistan, or the story about the man named Goodman who becomes a badman in Texas. The title story is about an obsessive bus driver who tries to stay on time and who doesn't open the doors for late passengers (why should 30 people lose 30 seconds each so one person doesn't have to wait an additional 15 minutes). But one of his passengers has a disease that makes him late, and he has finally found the love of his life, and cannot be late to the Dolphinarium to meet her. Will the bus driver wait? There is the story about the flight attendant who falls for a passenger. In "Uterus", the narrator tells the story of his mother who had her uterus removed. It was so beautiful, it was placed in a museum, and when the narrator grew older and had his own family, he would take his children to visit their grandmother's uterus. In "Shoes", a young boy gets a gift of German-branded sneakers a few weeks after commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day; he is conflicted. In "Pipes", a young student's single wrong answer on a test gets him pegged as suffering from perceptual disorders, forcing him to go to trade school, where he learns that it isn't the smart and strong people who first learned to use clubs, it was the weak and abused. In a story about "Alon Shemesh", Alon is absent from school, so his friend takes his homework home to him. The next day that friend is absent, and one by one, as others take the homework to the absent students, they too disappear. And then the teacher goes to make a sick call on the boys... The collection includes stories from Keret's other books: Pipelines, and Missing Kissinger.


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The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God Other Stories Etgar Keret Books Reviews

I watched the movie "Wrist Cutters - A Love Story" which is based on a short story by Etgar Keret called "Kneller's Happy Campers". While the movie has a happier ending that the short story, I did enjoy Keret's writing style and the fact his stories are quirky and present life from a different point of view. Keret is a Jewish author and grew up in Israel. His stories have a bit of an existential feel and I think he would be an interesting person to know.
I might be going a little too far by calling this the best book I've read all year, but while the high of this book still lingers with me that's what I'm calling it. I'll admit the only reason I bought this book was to read "Kneller's Happy Campers" because it was adapted into the film Wristcutters - A Love Story, but "Knellers" turned out to be the last story in the collection and it just didn't feel right to ignore the other stories.

Etgar Keret doesn't disappoint. His style might be a little over the top for the average reader, but his imagination is just the sort of world I'd love to live in. From a town that houses the gateway to hell to a man who finds Heaven within a pipe, the book is filled with slice-of-life stories of average-joe characters who just happen to reside within the surreal.

I should warn that if you're not into magical realism, bizarro fiction, or surrealism, then you should stray away from this collection. However, if you're seeking an exit from the monotony of your choice genre, this book might just be what you're looking for.
With this book I think the most important thing for any potential reader is to understand the genre before giving this book of short stories a read, because if you do not like this genre then you will not like this book. The stories are dark, and the author plays with irony and subtle twists. The author's worlds are not black and white but instead different shades of grey. If you don't enjoy flawed heroes who learn twisted lessons then this is not the book for you.

With that said this book was an important read for me in that it illustrated just how big a role military life plays in Israeli culture and society. More than half of these stories had some theme of military service surrounding them. The author's stories tend to focus on youths, and so their eventual military service is a common theme. I guess it is difficult to understand just how much the military permeates Israeli culture when one is outside of this society. I have read a lot of books on Israel, but it wasn't really till this little book that the reality actually began to sink in that this is a very pervasive aspect of Israeli culture.

As for the stories themselves the majority of them are about three pages long so expect to be sucked into this book very quickly. I found myself saying just one more until the book was finished. Of course I love this genre and style, so this book was bound to find a receptive audience with me. The author has a very nice style that sucks you in quickly then punches you in the gut before he moves onto the next story.

Once again know the genre. If this genre appeals to you then you will love this book, but if it doesn't then you should absolutely skip this work because it won't appeal to you.
Over twenty short, popular, absurd Israeli stories about life in Israel and elsewhere. Maybe it is the translation or the cultural differences, but some of the stories start out with great promise and creative ideas but just fizzle out into absurdity rather than comedy. Most, though, are fine. Pleasingly the stories are short, each about five pages long. There is the one about a woman who runs a grocery at the gate to Hell in Uzbekistan, or the story about the man named Goodman who becomes a badman in Texas. The title story is about an obsessive bus driver who tries to stay on time and who doesn't open the doors for late passengers (why should 30 people lose 30 seconds each so one person doesn't have to wait an additional 15 minutes). But one of his passengers has a disease that makes him late, and he has finally found the love of his life, and cannot be late to the Dolphinarium to meet her. Will the bus driver wait? There is the story about the flight attendant who falls for a passenger. In "Uterus", the narrator tells the story of his mother who had her uterus removed. It was so beautiful, it was placed in a museum, and when the narrator grew older and had his own family, he would take his children to visit their grandmother's uterus. In "Shoes", a young boy gets a gift of German-branded sneakers a few weeks after commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day; he is conflicted. In "Pipes", a young student's single wrong answer on a test gets him pegged as suffering from perceptual disorders, forcing him to go to trade school, where he learns that it isn't the smart and strong people who first learned to use clubs, it was the weak and abused. In a story about "Alon Shemesh", Alon is absent from school, so his friend takes his homework home to him. The next day that friend is absent, and one by one, as others take the homework to the absent students, they too disappear. And then the teacher goes to make a sick call on the boys... The collection includes stories from Keret's other books Pipelines, and Missing Kissinger.