{"id":12222,"date":"2022-06-04T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=12222"},"modified":"2022-06-09T03:05:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T03:05:35","slug":"hebrew-sft-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=12222","title":{"rendered":"Hebrew SFT: Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Small Change<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> by Yehudit Hendel, translated by Dalya Bilu, Barbara Harshav, and Marsha Pomerantz (Brandeis University Press, 2002).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In this delicately structured and psychologically rigorous short story collection, Yehudit Hendel maps out a shadow land between life and death, the mundane and the fantastic. These eight stories, which should be read as a cycle, offer variations on the themes of loneliness, family ties, obsession, and regret in contemporary Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Schlesinger (Toby Press, 2004).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret\u2019s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain\u2014from a father\u2019s first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught up in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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T<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\"\"he Nimrod Flipout<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston (FSG, 2006).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Already featured on This American Life<\/em> and Selected Shorts<\/em> and in Zoetrope: All Story<\/em> and L.A. Weekly<\/em>, 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<\/em> is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mi<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/a>ssing Kissinger<\/strong><\/em> by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston (Chatto Windus, 2007).
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A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but takes out only its head; a guy brings a girl home with him for the first time only to find that his best friend has pissed on his doorstep; a young man graduates from Magician School but soon discovers that he can’t do everything; two drunk students do battle with a pavement and win; someone has a mother and a girlfriend who hate each other’s guts, and they both demand that he gives them the other one’s heart… many of the characters in these stories are waiting for something to change their lives, many of them can’t quite reach ultimate happiness, some of them are sick, some are abandoned, and most have trouble communicating. The unexpected can, and usual does, happen<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Th<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/a>e Girl on the Fridge<\/strong><\/em> by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston (FSG, 2008).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad\u2014such are the denizens of Etgar Keret’s dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge <\/em>contains the best of Keret’s first collections, the ones that made him a household name in Israel and the major discovery of this last decade.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Love Machine and Other Contraptions<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> by Nir Yaniv, various translators (infinity plus, 2012).<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“The following stories represent some of Nir Yaniv\u2019s best work over the last decade or so. Never a prolific writer, he is nevertheless, at his best, a challenging, funny, deeply committed<\/i> writer, always experimenting, always reinventing, always exploring. I hope you enjoy this collection as much as I did.”- Lavie Tidhar, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

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Su<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/a>ddenly a Knock on the Door<\/strong><\/em><\/span> by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston and Nathan Englander (Vintage, 2012).<\/strong><\/p>\n

A man barges into a writer’s house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from the real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that all the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend’s mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Suddenly, a Knock on the Door<\/i> is at once Keret’s most mature and most playful work yet, and establishes him as one of the great international writers of our time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Fly Already<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> by Etgar Keret, translated by Sondra Silverston, Nathan Englander, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, and Yardenne Greenspan (Riverhead, 2019).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move.<\/strong>.. <\/strong>In \u201cArctic Lizard,\u201d a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in \u201cFly Already.\u201d In \u201cOne Gram Short,\u201d a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece \u201cPineapple Crush,\u201d two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship. The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar\u2019s deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.<\/span><\/section>\n
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Small Change by Yehudit Hendel, translated by Dalya Bilu, Barbara Harshav, and Marsha Pomerantz (Brandeis University Press, 2002). In this delicately structured and psychologically rigorous short story collection, Yehudit Hendel maps out a shadow land between life and death, the mundane and the fantastic. These eight stories, which should be read as a cycle, offer<\/p>\n

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