When he died the buses

Heroes short stories young Israeli writer Etgar Keret soldiers ants and trainer, champion jumps and hairdresser, circus and mustachioed Arab, a pig and a Guinea piggy monkey - live simultaneously in two worlds: real and phantasmagoric. Their existence is mundane and absurd, they disgust and compassion. Tragedy, and sometimes tragicomic this prose, its undoubted originality brought him worldwide fame and recognition. His works have been translated into dozens of languages.