His next book, The Seven Good Years, a nonfiction account of his personal life, is due in 2015.

His most recent book Suddenly a Knock on the Door (2010) became an instant #1 bestseller in Israel.

In France, Kneller’s Happy Campers is listed as one of the Fnac’s two-hundred books of the decade, and The Nimrod Flip-Out was published in Francis Ford Coppola’s magazine Zoetrope (2004). Martin’s Press) Missing Kissinger (2007, Chatto & Windus) and Gaza Blues (2004). Books include Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God (2004, St. His books are bestsellers in Israel and have been published in over thirty languages. Shot through with a dark, tragicomic sensibility and casual, comic-strip violence, he offers a window on a surreal world that is at once funny and sad. Rarely extending beyond three or four pages, these stories fuse the banal with the surreal. His book, The Nimrod Flip-Out, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006), is a collection of 32 short stories that captures the craziness of life in Israel today. Keret regards his family as a microcosm of Israel. Born in Tel Aviv in 1967 to an extremely diverse family, his brother heads an Israeli group that lobbies for the legalization of marijuana, and his sister is an orthodox Jew and the mother of ten children. Hailed as the voice of young Israel and one of its most radical and extraordinary writers, Etgar Keret is internationally acclaimed for his short stories.

Gaza Blues by Etgar Keret