Fly Already: Stories

　　說故事天才－艾加．凱磊，再次帶來顛覆想像，讓人笑中帶淚的動人的作品



　　你需要向某人收購大麻？沒問題，只要踏入這個法庭，大喊被告就是殺人犯！你是個需要有人陪伴的有錢王老五？沒問題，只要你買斷大家的生日，每天你都可以叫上一堆朋友來慶祝！



　　覺得家裡客廳少了件什麼？沒問題，把那輛害老爸出車禍的超跑碎片拿來裝飾！你想要把女孩哄騙上床？沒問題，你的作家朋友會幫你寫出一段感動人心，極度有說服力的故事！你帶著巨大的沈痛哀傷，站上了高樓的邊緣？沒問題，那就飛吧！



　　全球暢銷書《我絕非虛構的美好七年》作者－艾加．凱磊，再度展現他精湛的短篇說故事功力，精選22篇，內容描述的既幽默卻又悲傷，既超脫常理又直擊人性，永遠不會知道最終會如何收尾，總是能讓讀者驚喜、歡樂、感動！(文/博客來編譯)

From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection.

"There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." --George Saunders

There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move...

In "Arctic Lizard," a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in "Fly Already." In "One Gram Short," a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece "Pineapple Crush," two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship.

The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.

Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan and now lives in Tel Aviv. A recipient of the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, the Charles Bronfman Prize, and the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, he is the author of the memoir The Seven Good Years and story collections including The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God. His work has been translated into forty-five languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, among many other publications, and on This American Life, where he is a regular contributor.