The Girl on the Fridge: Stories - Paperback

by Etgar Keret (Author), Miriam Shlesinger (Translator), Sondra Silverston (Translator)

Read the stories that made Etgar Keret Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer with The Girl on the Fridge.

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.

Author Biography

Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. His stories have been featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts. As screenwriters/ directors, he and his wife, Shira Geffen, won the 2007 Palme d'Or for Best Debut Feature (Jellyfish) at the Cannes Film Festival.