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The Resource The seven good years, Etgar Keret ; translated by Sodra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, and Anthony Berris

The seven good years, Etgar Keret ; translated by Sodra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, and Anthony Berris

Label
The seven good years
Title
The seven good years
Statement of responsibility
Etgar Keret ; translated by Sodra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, and Anthony Berris
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Language
eng
Summary
A brilliant, hilarious memoir from a master storyteller. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son, Lev, and the death of his father were good years, but still full of reasons to worry. Lev was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. Etgar's father became sick. And Etgar has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitic remarks both real and imagined, and, perhaps most worrisome of all, a dogged telemarketer who seems likely to chase him to the grave. Emerging from these darkly absurd circumstances is a series of funny, touching ruminations on everything from his three-year-old son's impending military service to the terrorist mindset behind Angry Birds. The Seven Good Years is a tender and entertaining tale of a father bringing up his son in a country beset by wars and alarms. Told in Etgar's inimitable style, this wise, witty memoir is full of wonder and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humour. Moving deftly between the personal and the political, the playful and the profound, it reveals the human need to find good in the least likely places, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our capricious world
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
ANL
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1967-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Keret, Etgar
Dewey number
892.437
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Silverston, Sodra
  • Shlesinger, Miriam
  • Cohen, Jessica
  • Berris, Anthony
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  • Keret, Etgar
  • Keret, Etgar
  • Authors, Israeli
  • Autobiography
  • Authors
  • Authors, Israeli
  • Authors, Israeli
  • Authors, Israeli
Label
The seven good years, Etgar Keret ; translated by Sodra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, and Anthony Berris
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volume
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  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000053410770
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
xii, 180 pages
Isbn
9781925106435
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)891157162
Label
The seven good years, Etgar Keret ; translated by Sodra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, and Anthony Berris
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000053410770
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
xii, 180 pages
Isbn
9781925106435
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)891157162

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