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A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller.
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.
What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar's three-year-old son's impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There's Lev's insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar's siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father's shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever.
This wise, witty memoir - Etgar's first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style - is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.
What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar's three-year-old son's impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There's Lev's insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar's siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father's shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever.
This wise, witty memoir - Etgar's first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style - is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.
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July 2015 : UK Hardback
June 2015 : USA Hardback
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June 2016 : USA Paperback
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June 2015 : USA Audio CD
June 2015 : USA Audio edition

Title: The Seven Good Years: A Memoir
Author(s): Etgar Keret
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Availability: Amazon
June 2015 : Canada Audio edition

Title: The Seven Good Years: A Memoir
Author(s): Etgar Keret
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Availability: Amazon CA
Kindle Editions
June 2015 : UK Kindle edition
June 2015 : USA, Canada Kindle edition