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The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad—such are the denizens of Etgar Keret’s dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge contains the best of Keret’s first collections, the ones that made him a household name in Israel and the major discovery of this last decade. From Publishers Weekly Advocates of flash fiction contend you can say a lot with a little. Unfortunately, you can also say a little with a little. Israeli writer Keret ( The Nimrod Flipout ) confirms both with this hodgepodge of 46 sketches, culled from his first collection. There are whimsical tales like Nothing, about a woman who loved a man who was made of nothing because this love would never betray her, and Freeze! about a guy who can stop the world and uses the power to score with hot girls. Despite an appealing, comic voice, many of these pieces feel insubstantial and leave the reader indifferent. Nevertheless, a haunting theme arises as stories featuring violence accumulate: Not Human Beings, in which an Israeli soldier is beaten by fellow officers when he objects to the cruel treatment of

Who reads The Girl on the Fridge?

Author

Etgar Keret

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374531058

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (2,589 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14