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Fly Already

Etgar Keret author Jessica Cohen translator Sondra Silverston translator Miriam Shlesinger translator Nathan Englander translator Yardenne Greenspan translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Granta Books

Published:1st Oct '20

Should be back in stock very soon

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A collection of sharp, bittersweet, hilarious short stories, from a 'genius' (New York Times) who 'falls somewhere between Kafka and Seinfeld' (Les Inrockuptibles)

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you want the joy of company? Don't worry, just buy up people's birthdays, and you'll have friends calling every day. You need to get girls into bed? Don't worry, your writer friend will write you a very persuasive story. You're standing on the edge of a very high building, with all of your wretched sorrows? Don't worry, fly already! In these 22 short stories, wild capers reveal painful emotional truths, and the bizarre is just another name for the familiar. Wickedly funny and thrillingly smart, Fly Already is a collage of absurdity, despair and love, written by veteran commentator on the circus farce that is life.

I am in awe of Keret's ability to simultaneously make me laugh while crying, explore the joy and horror of every day life with precision, brevity and great psychological depth. His recognition of and engagement with the absurd is profound and he never loses his humanity, his heart long the way -- AM Homes
Brilliantly edgy, unsettling, Kafkaesque and often very funny -- Joyce Carol Oates
A reminder that writing can be accessible, creative, intelligent, transgressive, challenging, funny - and popular - all at the same -- Graeme Simsion
Reading Fly Already is like settling down for a ride in a luxurious car with a world-class driver who has an extremely crazy worldview that doesn't interfere with his amazing driving. Is there any better way to see the world? -- Elif Batuman

ISBN: 9781783780518

Dimensions: 197mm x 127mm x 10mm

Weight: 158g

224 pages