A drab traveling 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 tricks; a piggy bank named Margolis; and a young girl who claims
that she is a porn-obsessed dwarf on a flight to nowhere. Five graphic novellas based on the short
stories by Etgar Keret.
About the Author and Artists
 Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. He is undoubtedly the most popular writer among Israeli youth, who feel he expresses their world, and his unique style has been widely imitated. Critic Nissim Calderon writes that Keret is “the Amos Oz of his generation,” and the daily Yedioth Ahronoth chose his book Missing Kissinger as one of the fifty most important Israeli books of all time.
Keret’s books have all been bestsellers and each of them was awarded the Book Publishers’ Association Platinum Book Prize for selling more than 40,000 copies. He received the Prime Minister’s Prize for literature and the Ministry of Culture Cinema Prize. His books in translation have received critical acclaim around the world.
Keret lectures at Tel Aviv University Film School. His movie, Skin Deep, won the Israeli Oscar as well as first prize at several international film festivals. About 50 short films based on his stories have been produced, and one received the 1998 American MTV Prize for the best animated film.
ACTUS COMICS is a group of artists based in Tel Aviv, which has won international acclaim as one of the most innovative independent artistic ventures currently operating.
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The Critics Praise:
"Wonderfully surreal, laugh-out-loud-funny stories...all of them witty gems from a singular
storyteller."
- Elle
"Wildly inventive."
- The Baltimore Sun
"Keret's exhilarating stories rush past like dreams and fancies, the oft-repeated set-up and
scenario familiar to anyone who has ever read Kafka."
- The Guardian, UK
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