The Funniest Man in the World

by Ephraim Kishon

Book Overview

These humorous stories by Ephraim Kishon are full of the stuff of life itself – children, dogs, neighbors, domestic appliances, plumbers, bureaucrats, swindlers, taxi drivers, publishers, media men,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944007473
• ISBN13: 9780944007471
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: S.P.I. Books
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The man knows humor.

I`ve read Mr. Kishon`s books in the 1960`s about the craziness that defined the modern Israel as he witnessed it`s history firsthand. When I visited Israel 15 years later, it was as if I stepped into the pages of any of his books. It`s only too sad that this man isn`t the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Defence Minister, ...heck, Ephraim could replace the entire Knesset. His book are priceless.

More books need to be translated!

I giggled all the way from Frankfurt to Munich. People in my train compartment gave me strange looks, but I just couldn't stop laughing. Tears were running down my face! I don't even remember which of Kishon's books I was reading, it was in German. Unfortunately I could only find this one translated into in English. All of his books were very popular in Germany during the 70's and 80's. They probably still are. Kishon pokes fun at everyone and everything. His descriptions of customs, friends, politics, religion are very funny and you just have to laugh because they are so totally unusual and unexpected. His life and most of his tales take place in Israel, and it is very easy to think oneself into the situations he describes. If you want to laugh and learn something at the same time, this book is wonderful.

Very funny indeed

Kishon is a writer whose humor appeals especially to those who know the horrors of petty bureacracy and the endless minor everyday insults of domestic family life. These are his specialities . But he is too a chronicler of particular time in Israeli society, and for those who lived in the Israel of the fifties and sixties his work has special relevance. He may not have been the funniest man in the world but he could be very funny indeed.