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The seven good years : a memoir / Etgar Keret ; translated by Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, Anthony Berris.

by Keret, Etgar, 1967-

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Riverhead Books, c2015.

Keret, Etgar, 1967-

Authors, Israeli -- Biography.

Screenwriters -- Israel -- Biography.

Fathers and sons -- Biography.

9781594633263 (hc.)

1594633266 (hc.)

171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

"A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a master storyteller. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life. What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar's three-year-old son's impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There's Lev's insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar's siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father's shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This memoir is Etgar's first nonfiction book published in English, and told in his inimitable style, is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor. The child of Holocaust survivors, Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan, a city near Tel Aviv in Israel, in 1967. He is known for his short stories (including the collections Missing Kissinger, Suddenly a Knock on the Door, The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories and Anihu), graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, Zoetrope and the Paris Review. His books has been translated into 37 languages. In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival's "Camera d'Or" Award for their movie Jellyfish"--Provided by publisher.

Silverston, Sondra.

Shlesinger, Miriam, 1947-

Cohen, Jessica.

Berris, Anthony.

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