The+Seven+Good+Years+by+Etgar+Keret


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What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There’s Lev’s insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar’s siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father’s shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoir—Etgar’s first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style—is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.

= = = About the Author = Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan in 1967. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, Zoetrope and the Paris Review. His books has been translated into 37 languages. In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival's "Camera d'Or" Award for their movie Jellyfish. In 2010 Keret received the Chevalier Medallion of France'sOrdre des Arts et des Lettres. The Seven Good Years will be published by Riverhead Books in spring 2015.

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**Related links** Interview with Keret from Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/12-questions-etgar-keret-358896