Autocorrect

From one of the most acclaimed masters of the short story form whom The New York Times calls 'Genius', this darkly funny collection of stories explores themes of identity, reality, and meaning.

Imagine a world in which you could take back the stupid thing you just said, unspill the coffee, avoid the accident, roll life back thirty seconds and do it over again - this time the right way. In Etgar Keret's universe, all things are possible. A man can take a yoga class that genuinely transforms his life. A son has the chance to redo a fateful exchange with his father. An alien can offer a guided tour of the destroyed earth. And an angry squirrel can wreck a wedding.

Ranging from sci-fi scenarios to fictional thought-experiments and short vignettes, the stories here all deliver the irreverence, surprises, existential unease, hope, and humanity we have come to expect from Etgar Keret - one of the most original and entertaining storytellers at work today.


'Universal and timeless.'
-The New York Times

' E verything he writes is suffused with a wan metaphysical wit- you come to expect the rug-pull, the sad trombone. He's an absurdist, a surrealist, and a writer who revels in the way that in a few paragraphs you can take the reader anywhere ... The stories in Autocorrect ... are gleaming splinters ... from an author who conveys as well as any I can think of just how much fun you can have with a short story.'
-Sam Leith, The Guardian

'These tales of parallel universes and artificial realities are suffused by a pervasive melancholy ... Sci-fi scenarios, vignettes, thought experiments, fables, parables? They do not have plots so much as premises from which consequences, extrapolations and ironic complications stem ... Keret's stories are hauntingly re-readable.'
-Stuart Kelly, The Spectator