The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312261887.

Israels hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Kerets stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain-from a fathers first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. Bus Driver includes stories from Kerets bestselling collections in Israel, Pipelines and Missing Kissinger, as well as Kerets major new novella, "Knellers Happy Campers," a bitingly satirical yet wistful road trip set in the afterlife for suicides.