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(P/B) BUS DRIVER WHO WANTED TO BE GOD
Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative ...
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(P/B) GOD'S GYM
December 22, 2000 marks a dramatic confluence of events for Joop Koopman. It is his daughter Miriam's seventeenth birthday. It is the day on which, after eighteen years, he meets his old friend Philip, who works for the Israel Defense Ministry and has reasons for finding Joop that are not just personal. It is also the day Joop crosses paths with Erroll Washington, aka "Godzilla," the owner of a health club in Venice known as "God's Gym." On this day, Joop's life takes a tragic and terrifying turn, and he finds he has no choice but to let h...
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