{"id":304046,"date":"2016-04-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/04\/08\/latest-review-the-seven-good-years-by-etgar-keret\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:32","slug":"latest-review-the-seven-good-years-by-etgar-keret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/04\/08\/latest-review-the-seven-good-years-by-etgar-keret\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "The Seven Good Years" by Etgar Keret"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews<\/a> section is by Vincent Francone on The Seven Good Years<\/em> by Etgar Kerert, on the edition published by Granta Books.<\/p>\n

Here’s the beginning of Vince’s review:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a rare and wonderful book that begins and ends with violence and humor. At the start of Etgar Keret\u2019s The Seven Good Years<\/em>, Keret is in a hospital waiting for the birth of his first child while nurses, in what seems a blas\u00e9 manner, talk about how much they hate terrorist attacks. \u201cThey put a damper on everything.\u201d Keret shares this story\u2014the beginning of his life as a father occurring as the wounded of Tel Aviv surround him\u2014 most likely to imply something deep about life and death, but I simply found it funny. Chalk that up to my dark sense of humor, or maybe it\u2019s because Keret manages to wrest more from tragedy than just pathos. Surely he\u2019s trying to communicate what it is like to live in a part of the world where violence is an everyday reality, so much so that emergency personnel shake their heads and rhetorically ask \u201cWhat can you do?\u201d as they share a piece of gum. Nevertheless, Keret is up to more than a mere account of Middle East life. He\u2019s after bigger fish.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the rest of the review, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Vincent Francone on The Seven Good Years by Etgar Kerert, on the edition published by Granta Books. Here’s the beginning of Vince’s review: It\u2019s a rare and wonderful book that begins and ends with violence and humor. At the start of Etgar Keret\u2019s The Seven Good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[9906,8366,26636,1646,64236,22356],"class_list":["post-304046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-etgar-keret","tag-granta","tag-israeli-literature","tag-review","tag-the-seven-good-years","tag-vincent-francone"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309066,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304046\/revisions\/309066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}