"In his most daring and surprising storybook to date, Etgar Keret continues to dazzle with his ability to create ties of empathy in the most disparate situations. In the story that gives the volume its title, a man who has left his wife , whose son has told him that he is a zero to the left and whom even his obese cat has abandoned, is commended by the owner of the circus where he works to replace the bullet man, ignoring the warnings of the clowns that before the delirium of the The public invites him to reflect on the dangers of such a profession, the man stumbles into the canyon and shoots out of the target until he makes a hole in the circus tent. Fly and see his city, his world and all those who have abandoned him from above, and he finds his new vocation there.

Keret is an off-road writer who can make a tension worthy of the best short story tradition, the same from a child who wants to take the cash register of a toy store as a gift ("choose what you want," the father told him. ), or imagine a dystopian United States where Donald Trump is re-elected for a third term. With the army decimated by a bloody war against Mexico, the American president uses a perverse Pokemon game to recruit children and adolescents who become deadly soldiers. "