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The Seven Good Years - Etgar Keret

By Etgar Keret

Release Date: 2015-06-16

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

4.5 (40 ratings)
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A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a ā€œgeniusā€ (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.

The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keretā€™s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgarā€™s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.

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

The Seven Good Years - Etgar Keret

By Etgar Keret

Release Date: 2015-06-16

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

4.5 (40 ratings)
Read Download
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a ā€œgeniusā€ (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.

The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keretā€™s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgarā€™s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.

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

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