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Jetlag

by Etgar Keret · 1998

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This collection of five graphic novellas features a drab salesman who falls in love with a Romanian circus aerialist; a young woman who lives next to the entrance to Hell; a magician who loses control of his magic; a piggy bank named Margolis; and a young girl who claims that she is a porn obsessed dwarf on a flight to nowhere.

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JewishJewishMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisIsraelIsraelMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 90 pages
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