The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories | Etgar Keret

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories | Etgar Keret | so absurd, so hip, so so

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	The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories Etgar Keret Toby Press, 2004 - 200 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

the best of the best

great writer, great stories, funny things from life...

so absurd, so hip, so so

Over twenty short, popular, absurd Israeli stories about life in Israel and elsewhere. Maybe it is the translation or the cultural differences, but some of the stories start out with great promise and creative ideas but just fizzle out into absurdity rather than comedy. Most, though, are fine. Pleasingly the stories are short, each about five pages long. There is the one about a woman who runs a grocery at the gate to Hell in Uzbekistan, or the story about the man named Goodman who becomes a badman in Texas. The title story is about an obsessive bus driver who tries to stay on time and who doesn't open the doors for late passengers (why should 30 people lose 30 seconds each so one person doesn't have to wait an additional 15 minutes). But one of his passengers has a disease that makes him late, and he has finally found the love of his life, and cannot be late to the Dolphinarium to meet her. Will the bus driver wait? There is the story about the flight attendant who falls for a passenger. In "Uterus", the narrator tells the story of his mother who had her uterus removed. It was so beautiful, it was placed in a museum, and when the narrator grew older and had his own family, he would take his children to visit their grandmother's uterus. In "Shoes", a young boy gets a gift of German-branded sneakers a few weeks after commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day; he is conflicted. In "Pipes", a young student's single wrong answer on a test gets him pegged as suffering from perceptual disorders, forcing him to go to trade school, where he learns that it isn't the smart and strong people who first learned to use clubs, it was the weak and abused. In a story about "Alon Shemesh", Alon is absent from school, so his friend takes his homework home to him. The next day that friend is absent, and one by one, as others take the homework to the absent students, they too disappear. And then the teacher goes to make a sick call on the boys... The collection includes stories from Keret's other books: Pipelines, and Missing Kissinger.

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