The mini-narratives, often only two or three pages long, are compact stories, postmodernistic texts in the fashion of video-clips, depicting an episode, portraying a certain situation, opening thereby a window on a surreal world and on strange inner lives. Born in Tel Aviv, Keret published his first collection of 56 short stories, Ẓinorot ("Pipelines"), in 1992, followed two years later by Ga'aguai le-Kissinger, which was enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike.
Critic Nissim Calderon wrote that Keret is "the Amos Oz of his generation." Keret's books have all been bestsellers and each of them was awarded the Platinum Prize for selling more than 40,000 copies.
Keret, often referred to as Israel's hippest young artist, is one of the most popular writers among Israeli youth.
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