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Synopsis
This collection of five graphic novellas features a drab salesman who falls in love with a Romanian circus aerialist; a young woman who lives next to the entrance to Hell; a magician who loses control of his magic; a piggy bank named Margolis; and a young girl who claims that she is a porn obsessed dwarf on a flight to nowhere.
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About the Author
Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. His stories have been featured on "This American Life "and "Selected Shorts". As screenwriters/ directors, he and his wife, Shira Geffen, won the 2007 Palme d Or for Best Debut Feature ("Jellyfish") at the Cannes Film Festival. His books include "The Nimrod Flipout" and "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door".
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First published as a limited edition in 1999, this anthology presents five short stories by popular Israeli author Keret adapted into comics by the five members of the Actus Tragicus collective. Keret's tales are brief, surreal fables that set up a witty premise and then end fairly abruptly. In the opening "HaTrick" (drawn by Batia Kolton), a children's magician, attempting to pull a rabbit out of his hat, pulls out the rabbit's severed head; when he tries it again, he withdraws a dead baby. Unfortunately for the artists, these stories are built more on suggestion than on action. In a few cases, literal representations of the story kill its mystique—particularly the title piece, drawn by Itzik Rennert, in which a man on an airplane (next to an evil dwarf disguised as a little girl) realizes that the flight attendant has fallen in love with him and plans to save him from a terrible fate. Only Mira Friedmann's visual elaboration on "Passage to Hell," which incorporates a good deal of pantomime that Keret doesn't mention in his text, adds much to its story. But the artwork is consistently terrific in its own right—the Actus group's stately compositions and calculated distortions owe more to modern art than to the comics tradition. (Feb.)
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- PublisherToby Pr
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1592641555
- ISBN 13 9781592641550
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages90
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