The bus driver who wanted to be god & other stories - etgar keret

Classic warped and wonderful stories from a genius ( The New York Times ) and master storyteller.

Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Kerets 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--from a fathers 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.

New to Riverheads list, these wildly inventive, uniquely humane stories are for fans of Etgar Kerets inimitable style and readers of transforming, brilliant fiction.