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The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God, the first collection of his works translated into English, includes the mesmerizing tale of a beautiful uterus set free in the ocean by environmental terrorists, an angel who turns out to be just a liar with wings and a boy who names his piggy bank Margolis and loves it more than his parents.

When Keret began writing, his psyche was certainly not in a healthy place. To be more precise, it was in a basement five floors underground, working completely alone for hour shifts on a job the Israeli Army code-named Quasimodo. As the isolation took its toll, Keret began talking to himself and, eventually, putting pen to paper.

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His sometimes fantastical and always off-beat writings differ markedly from earlier, canonical Israeli authors. But in his stories, there is ambiguity and uncertainty. Especially when it comes to love. And then, he hears his wife, hanging upside down from the ceiling, laughing. He makes a stack of books to climb on and get his wife down, when he realizes:.

She was so pretty, and so incongruous, hanging upside-down from the ceiling that way. With her long hair dangling downwards, and her breasts molded like two perfect teardrops under her white T-shirt.