Lit in Translation

Fly Already

תקלה בקצה הגלקסיה · Takalah bi-ktseh ha-galaksyah

Etgar Keret (אתגר קרת, born 1967)

Translated by Sondra Silverston, Nathan Englander, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, Yardenne Greenspan

English editions

In English

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The stories share the mood of a galaxy whose sun has gone dark, leaving its planets to adjust to a new reality. Suicides, accidents and tragedies turn up in passing, told with a child's lightness or an unsettling awareness. Many pieces turn on parents and children, often through a powerless father who cannot explain the world to his child; in one, family catastrophe seeps into the everyday routine, and several move into science fiction, such as a future America that drafts fourteen-year-olds and rewards its soldiers with collectible creatures on the battlefield.

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About the book

Form
Short stories
Length
159 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Speculative (assigned by AI)
First published
2018 by Zmora-Bitan
Author's age
51 when first published
ISBN

9789655666977 (original)

9781594633270 (Riverhead Books, United States)

9781783780495 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)

9781925713893 (Scribe Publications, Australia)

9780399573026 (Riverhead Books, United States)

9781783780518 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)

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