Magic & Childhood: three tales of innocence from Israel

by Etgar Keret

Israeli writer Etgar Keret has been praised for his surreal, funny and fiercely serious stories, which are collected in Missing Kissinger, The Nimrod Flip-Out, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and Jetlag.

He is also the joint author, with Samir El-Youssef, of Gaza Blues, an attempt to bridge the Arab-Israeli divide with fiction.

These three stories were published in Prospect magazine and also appear in Missing Kissinger.

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