The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

Editorial Review:

From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer--"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)

 

Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

A Style All His Own:

Etgar Keret is nothing more (or less) than the Etgar Keret of Israeli literature. His style in many ways is unique and should be read with no one else in mind. Like many Israelis, he lives life with a cynical approach that is very much like 'gallows' humor. This derives from the birth pangs of Israel, the elegiac weight of the Shoah (Holocaust) and the knowledge of being surrounded by 160 million people who want you gone and dead.
Spend any time in Israel or with Israelis and you will understand a... more info

An Israeli Woody Allen:

Any reader tickled by the early stories of Woody Allen - the one about the moose at a costume party comes to mind - will delight in these stories. They are witty and poignant in unexpected ways, rambling sometimes like a conversation with an underachieving friend you knew in middle school who with the sensibilities of a 14-year-old has had adulthood thrust upon him.
Making meaning of it all, when life was supposed to be simple, is a task that leads his narrators in a hundred circuitous ways to... more info

Sometimes brilliant. Other times not.:

This book is a bit of a grab bag. It's a jumble of great and not-so-great stories, and you take what you get.
Some of the stories are absolutely fantastic, creative, evocative, and perfectly told. Often, these excellent stories elicited strong reactions from me, or made me smile at their strange, wonderful, and twisted genius. The first story of the book, "Fatso," is such a gem of a story (in structure, in its strangeness, in style, in images, in character, in a surprising dose of magical realism)... more info

Israeli Magical Realism:

Who knew the Magical Realist mantle would end up in Tel Aviv? (There's no better place for it!) This is a somewhat uneven collection of short stories, thus the missing star. However, it's extremely rare to find a short story collection where that isn't the case.
Maybe he gets half a star back, and rounded up to the nearest star, because most of these tiny fables are incredibly good. Several are snort-wine-out-your-nose funny, some are perfectly sly, and others are sweet or poignant without... more info

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