Since its irruption in the international literary scene, Etgar Keret has captivated readers of every genre and age with his particular literary style. In stories of a few pages, Keret plasma limits situations of daily life, that when it is looked through its meticulous magnifying glass, reveals to have nothing of day to day. His writing reflects the volatile, violent and uncertain reality of the Middle East, but not from ethical or moral grandiloquence, but by fleeting glimpses of situations and characters immersed in a chaos that transcends them, in an attempt to keep his head afloat, finding Value and meaning in the surrounding absurdity. Among the 49 stories that make up this volume are some that have already become Keretian referents, such as "Break the pig", "Ready to shoot" or, who names the book, "Missing Kissinger." A product of Keret's inexhaustible imagination, the reader wi...read more