Autocorrect: Stories - Softcover

Keret, Etgar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593717244 ISBN 13: 9780593717240

Verlag: Riverhead Books, 2026

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From one of the preeminent literary voices in Israel comes a darkly funny collection of surrealist stories exploring the increasingly complex relationship between humans and technology.

Set in our world, alternate realities, distant futures, and the immortal realm, the stories in Autocorrect traverse the wide range of human experience. With wit and creativity, Keret blends the absurd and the profound, juxtaposing life's smallest details with weighty existential questions. A man names an asteroid after his wife only to find that it's on a collision course with Earth in "For the Woman Who Has Everything." In "Squirrels," a widower's husband reincarnates as a rodent, and "Eating Olives at the End of the World" considers proper social etiquette in the face of destruction.

Keret's collection speaks to the uncertainty and fragility of our time, expertly capturing its misunderstandings and miscommunications. His stories probe society's uncomfortable truths, searching for meaning in our ever-changing world.

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Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been pub­lished in over four dozen lan­guages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, and The New Yorker, among others. His awards include the Cannes Film Festival’s Caméra d’Or (2007), the Charles Bronfman Prize (2016), and the pres­tigious Sapir Prize (2018). Over a hundred short films and several feature films have been based on his stories. Keret teaches creative writing at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Since 2021, he has been publishing the weekly newsletter Alphabet Soup on Substack.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Riverhead Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0593717244
• ISBN 13: 9780593717240
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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