The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
by Etgar Keret, Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature
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Author: Etgar Keret, Institute for Translation of Hebrew LiteratureTranslator: Miriam Shlesinger
Translator: Sondra Silverston
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-04
ISBN: 0374222436
Number of pages: 167
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Reviews of The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
Book Review: Like a box of chocolate truffles, each bite sized, complex, and mouthwatering
Summary: 5 Stars
I am at a loss for how to describe Etgar Keret's work to those who've yet to have the pleasure. To comment merely on his stories brevity - the longest I believe comes in at perhaps eight pages and thirty fill this slim volume - would make him seem too much the trickster, a writer with a gag instead of the extraordinary story teller one will meet in "The Nimrod Flipout." Perhaps instead I might offer examples of a few of his topics - a man falls into an existential crisis when he wakes to find his beloved dog licking his morning erecting; a character is obsessed with a kiss his girl friend had long ago; the most average of men finds extraordinary success in the most average of ways begging the reader to ask why haven't they - but no, simply going through the stories one by one seems almost voyeuristic.
Not to sound too Forest Gump-esque, but Keret's collection resembles nothing so much as a box of varied chocolate truffles, each bit sized, each unique, each extraordinary in its own right, even if it doesn't meet your particular taste. Life may not be like a collection of Etgar Keret short stories, but the world be better off if more reading experiences were.
Highly recommended.
Summary of The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer--"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)
Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.
Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.
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