Etgar Keret has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 13 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.1★ across 14 ratings. The most-rated is The Seven Good Years.
The Seven Good Years
Summary
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.
©2015 Etgar Keret (P)2015 Penguin Audio
Fly Already
Summary
From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection. "There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself.... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." (George Saunders) There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move.... In "Arctic Lizard", a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in "Fly Already". In "One Gram Short", a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece "Pineapple Crush", two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship. The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in this audio, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive. Audiobook table of contents: "Fly Already", read by Rob Shapiro “One Gram Short”, read by MacLeod Andrews “The Next-to-Last Time I Was Shot Out of a Cannon”, read by John Rubinstein “Todd”, read by Kirby Heyborne “Tabula Rasa”, read by John Rubinstein “Car Concentrate”, read by Rob Shapiro “At Night”, read by Karissa Vacker “Windows”, read by Kirby Heyborne “To the Moon and Back”, read by MacLeod Andrews “GooDeed”, read by John Rubinstein “Crumb Cake”, read by Rob Shapiro “Dad With Mashed Potatoes”, read by Karissa Vacker “Arctic Lizard”, read by MacLeod Andrews (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Sefi Moreh to Michael Warshavski), read by Kirby Heyborne “Ladder”, read by John Rubinstein (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Sefi Moreh to Michael Warshavski), read by Kirby Heyborne “Yad Vashem”, read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Sefi Moreh to Michael Warshavski), read by Kirby Heyborne “The Birthday of a Failed Revolutionary”, read by John Rubinstein (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro “Allergies”, read by Kirby Heyborne (Email from Sefi Moreh to Michael Warshavski), read by Kirby Heyborne “Fungus”, read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro “Chips”, read by MacLeod Andrews (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro “Home”, read by John Rubinstein (Email from Sefi to Chief Dept. of Rational Species Study), read by Kirby Heyborne “Pineapple Crush”, read by MacLeod Andrews “Evolution of a Breakup”, read by Rob Shapiro
©2019 Etgar Keret (P)2019 Penguin Audio
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories
Summary
Classic warped and wonderful stories from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret's 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 father's 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 Riverhead's list, these wildly inventive, uniquely humane stories are for fans of Etgar Keret's inimitable style and fans of transforming, brilliant fiction.
©2015 Etgar Keret (P)2015 Penguin Audio
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
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Audie Award Nominee, Multi-voiced Performance, 2013 Read by an all-star cast and featuring a bonus story special to the audio edition, Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is a one-of-a-kind audiobook. Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret’s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams and waking life coexist in an uneasy world. Overflowing with absurdity, humor, sadness, and compassion, the tales in Suddenly, a Knock on the Door establish Etgar Keret—declared a "genius" by The New York Times—as one of the most original writers of his generation. Audio Track listing: "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door", read by Ira Glass; "Lieland", read by Adam Thirlwell; "Cheesus Christ", read by Dave Eggers; "Simyon", read by Nicole Krauss; "Shut", read by George Saunders; "Healthy Start"; read by Ben Foster; "Teamwork", read by Mathieu Amalric; "Pudding", read by Aimee Bender; "Unzipping", read by Miranda July; "The Polite Little Boy", read by Ben Marcus; "Mystique", read by Willem Dafoe; "Creative Writing", read by Stanley Tucci; "Snot", read by John Sayles; "Grab the Cuckoo by the Tail", read by Gary Shteyngart; "Pick a Color", read by Robert Wisdom; "Black and Blue", read by Stella Schnabel; "What Do We Have in Our Pockets?" read by Michael Chabon; "Bad Karma", read by Lorin Stein; "Ari", read by Rick Moody; "Bitch", read by Nathan Englander; "The Story, Victorious", read by Scott Shepherd; "A Good One", read by David Rakoff; "What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" read by Gary Shteyngart; "Not Completely Alone", read by Michael Chernus; "One Step Beyond", read by Shea Wigham; "Big Blue Bus", read by Josh Charles; "Hemorrhoid", read by Michael Buscemi; "September All Year Long", read by Neal Stephenson; "Joseph", read by Mark Duplass; "Mourners Meal", read by Shalom Auslander; "Parallel Universes", read by Todd Hasak-Lowy; "Upgrade", read by Josh Radnor; "Guava", read by Ira Glass; "Surprise Party", read by Scott Shepherd; "What Animal Are You?" read by Jonathan Safran Foer; and "Asthma Attack", read by Etgar Keret. Translated by: Nathan Englander Miriam Shlesinger Sondra Silverston
©2012 Etgar Keret (P)2012 Macmillan Audio
Watchlist
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Threats known and unknown. Etgar Keret. Robert Coover. Aimee Bender. Jim Shepard. Alissa Nutting. Charles Yu. Cory Doctorow. Randa Jarrar. Katherine Karlin. Miracle Jones. Mark Irwin. T. Coraghessan Boyle. Dale Peck. Bonnie Nadzam. Lucy Corin. Chika Unigwe. Footsteps in the night. Paul Di Filippo. Lincoln Michel. Dana Johnson. Mark Chiusano. Juan Pablo Villalobos. Chanelle Benz. Sean Bernard. Kelly Luce. Zhang Ran. Miles Klee. Carmen Maria Machado. David Abrams. Steven Hayward. Deji Bryce Olukotun. Alexis Landau. Bryan Hurt. We are being watched. That this statement no longer shocks is itself shocking. Post-Snowden, we know that the government - everywhere - has been reading our emails, listening to our phone calls, and watching whatever we do on the Internet. The only thing concealed is the nature of our watchers. In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. From drone strikes to birds mistaken for spies, paintings that change when they're not looked at to machines that let their dying users look back and reconsider the most important decisions of their lives, these stories take a broad and imaginative look at the state of surveillance in our global and interconnected world. How does constant surveillance affect us? Does it change how we behave as we seek approval or avoid judgment from an often faceless audience? Do we know who's watching? What does it mean to be watched? By turns political, apolitical, cautionary, and surreal, these stories reflect on what it's like to live in the surveillance state. Edited by Bryan Hurt.
©2015 Bryan Hurt (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Healthy Start
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Author Etgar Keret is known for his uncanny ability to cover an incredible amount of ground in an extremely short story. His writing is at times funny, satirical, dark, and profound, and his narratives intertwine the abstract and the everyday in creative and surprising ways. Healthy Start, a story from Keret's Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is no exception. Here, we are introduced to the recently jilted Aichai, an avid people-watcher who routinely - and regrettably - begins each morning by eating alone in a cafe. When, one morning, someone mistakes him for a man named Meir, he is too intrigued and too lonely to correct the mistake. A quick listen brimming with food for thought, Healthy Start will at once leave you intellectually satisfied and hungry for more from Etgar Keret.
©2010 Etgar Keret, translation copyright by 2012 by Etgar Keret (P)2012 Macmillan Audio