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Missing Kissinger

Missing Kissinger

Summary

'Etgar Keret's short stories are fierce, funny, full of energy and insight, and at the same time they are often deep, tragic and very moving' - Amos Oz

At a children's tea party, a magician tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but takes out only its head; a young man has a mother and girlfriend who each demand that he gives them the other one's heart; while a Nobel Laureate asks an orphan to perform a very strange task.

In Etgar Keret's blackly comic stories the unexpected can, and usually does, happen. They are clever, quick, sometimes violent and often intensely poignant. They are, in short, brilliant.

Reviews

  • This collection of short stories is easily one of the most memorable, moving and laugh-aloud-funny books you'll read in a long time
    Hepzibah Anderson, Daily Mail

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Etgar Keret

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