![]() ![]() The title story, the longest in the collection, follows a young man who commits suicide and goes on a quest for love in the afterlife. In 1998, Keret published Kneller's Happy Campers ( הקייטנה של קנלר, Hakaytana Shel Kneller), a collection of short stories. The illustrators were the five members of the Actus Tragicus collective. In 1999, five of his stories were translated into English, and adapted into "graphic novellas" under the joint title Jetlag. ![]() ![]() Keret has co-authored several comic books, among them Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Fun ( לא באנו ליהנות, Lo banu leihanot, 1996) with Rutu Modan and Streets of Fury (סמטאות הזעם, Simtaot Haza'am, 1997) with Asaf Hanuka. The short story "Siren", which deals with the paradoxes of modern Israeli society, is included in the curriculum for the Israeli matriculation exam in literature. His second book, Missing Kissinger ( געגועיי לקיסינג'ר, Ga'agu'ai le-Kissinger, 1994), a collection of fifty very short stories, caught the attention of the general public. Keret's first published work was Pipelines ( צינורות, Tzinorot, 1992), a collection of short stories which was largely ignored when it came out. ![]()
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