The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

“The best work of literature to come out of Israel in the last five thousand years—better than Leviticus and nearly as funny.” —Gary Shteyngart, New York Times-bestselling author

From Israel’s most popular and acclaimed young writer—“Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren’t” (Yann Martel, Man Booker Prize-winning author).

Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.

“Keret can do more with six strange and funny paragraphs than most writers can do with 600 pages.” —Kyle Smith, People

“Possibly the most absurd, funniest book ever to address suicide bombings . . . Each story is like a tightly wound joke, a concise and targeted observation that slays because of the truth of its content and the expertise in the execution.” —Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago

“These stories exude a force and zing that some readers will find life-changing.” —Jesse Berrett, San Francisco Chronicle

“If there were a fiction genre combining wit, wild imagination, penetrating insights, fantasy (sexual and otherwise) and the paranormal, Keret would dominate it like Stephen King dominates horror . . . Keret’s a strange genius.” —Kevin Walker, The Tampa Tribune

© 2024 Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Ebook): 9781429933209

Release date

Ebook: 4 June 2024