The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God And Other Stories

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001, 182 pp., $19.95).

Born near Tel Aviv in 1967, Keret is of the "post" generation: post-Holocaust, post -1948, post-1967, the historical events that are central to contemporary Jewish identity.

His parents are survivors, he served in the Israeli army, yet his stories are not filled with the angst expressed by previous generations by of Israelis that has never known a divided Jerusalem. He came of age during a time without full-scale war, although the years were not without violence.

Each generation finds its own voice, …