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The Girl on the Fridge
By Etgar Keret
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 171 pages, $12 paper
There is a tradition of great dystopic fiction — Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Ray Bradbury’s “Farenheit 451,” for example — but dystopic and funny? That combination is hard to pull off, but it’s the specialty of young Israeli writer Etgar Keret. This collection of 46 short pieces — scenes more than stories — is moving, hilarious and surprising. Though disparate on the surface, the pieces — about characters like a girl who hopes for sparkling eyes, and a stressed-out magician who astonishes even himself with horrors — when assembled show the triumph of individual power to resist violence and tragedy.
