The Girl on the Fridge: Stories
by Etgar Keret
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Author: Etgar KeretTranslator: Miriam Shlesinger
Translator: Sondra Silverston
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-15
ISBN: 0374531056
Number of pages: 171
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Reviews of The Girl on the Fridge: Stories
Book Review: Poignant, effective, topical, and raw
Summary: 5 Stars
A great friend of mine loaned me this book saying is changed her. It had an amazing effect on me too. The book is written in very short stories, no more than a page or three at most. Each story is complete, explores an idea, an event, often with an unexpected component, not really a twist, just unexpected. The book is just the essence of stories. It's like a great red wine reduction ... flavorful, deep in color, hints of what could be a much bigger wine, but concentrated to accent your current mood.I think the first two stories: asthma and the marriage story stuck with me the most. The line in the first story goes something like this:
"When an asmatic says "I love you," and when an asthmatic says "I love you madly," there's a difference. The difference of a word. A word's a lot. It could be stop, or inhaler. It could even be ambulance."
Summary of The Girl on the Fridge: Stories
A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad?such are the denizens of Etgar Keret?s dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge contains the best of Keret?s first collections, the ones that made him a household name in Israel and the major discovery of this last decade.
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