Autocorrect
Autocorrect
hardback
Published:
3 July, 2025
Description
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781803510668 |
| ISBN10 | 1803510668 |
| Number Of Pages | 208 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Granta Books |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
How to describe the Israeli writer Etgar Keret's stories? Sci-fi scenarios, vignettes, thought experiments, fables, parables... Hauntingly re-readable * Spectator *
It's hard to think of another writer able to imbue deadpan comedy with the profound range of emotions that Etgar Keret achieves... Essential reading for fractured times * Observer *
Keret's deft lightness of touch, his humour and his acute eye for detail are all present and correct... Autocorrect is everything we'd hoped for from a new Etgar Keret collection * Bookmunch *
Autocorrect isn't so much a book as a library of tiny books, from an author who conveys as well as any I can think of just how much fun you can have with a short story * Guardian *
The beauty of Keret's stories rests with his imaginative playfulness * ArtsHub *
The stories make up a wonderfully varied kind of conversation, which, underneath the intellectual shine, suggests very real worries: about ageing, and relationships, and the pace of cultural change * TLS *
[Autocorrect] conjures a world instantly recognisable then suddenly surreal, packing in comedic dialogue * Scottish Mail on Sunday *
Alien space ships, parallel worlds, rogue virtual reality, reincarnation and the afterlife all play their part in disrupting the lives of Keret's down-to-earth characters who are attempting to deal with love, loss, faith and failure... Deft and inventive * Irish Daily Mail *
Etgar Keret is a genius. Dark and funny and weird and incisive and honest and magical and heartbreaking. He is truly original. I needed this. We all need this -- Francesca Segal
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Author's Bio
Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, ETGAR KERET is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. He is the author of six bestselling story collections, which have been published in fifty languages. His writing has been published in the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Esquire. He has also written a number of screenplays, and Jellyfish, his first film as a director alongside his wife Shira Geffen, won the Caméra d'Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 he was awarded the Chevalier medallion of France's Order of Arts and Letters. His memoir The Seven Good Years was published by Granta in 2015, and the story collection Fly Already in 2019. www.etgarkeret.com