Pizzeria Kamikaze

by Asaf Hanuka (Illustrator), Etgar Keret

Overview

Mordy's afterlife isn't shaping up to be much better than his former life, until the road trip that could change everything.

“I think she cried at my funeral. It’s not like I am conceited or anything, but I am pretty sure.”

Mordy wanted to get away. Now in an afterlife for all victims of suicide, he still has to attend a crappy job in a place no more or less crappy than the place he came from. No matter where Mordy goes, he’s still Mordy.

But he’s shaken from the mundane after he runs into his former roommate and discovers that his beloved ex-girlfriend is there too, which sets Mordy up for a much needed road trip through an absurdist and fantastical landscape to find her.

Written by award-winning writer Etgar Keret (The Seven Good Years) with artwork by Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Asaf Hanuka (The Realist), Pizzeria Kamikaze is a most unexpected story of love, loss, and escape.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684151196
Publisher:	Archaia
Publication date:	03/06/2018
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

Adapted by Israeli writer Keret from his own short story, and drawn by Hanuka, this rather slight graphic novel was originally serialized in the comic Bipolar. Narrator Mordy is a 20-something slacker who's killed himself, only to discover that the afterlife for suicides is rather like his previous existence, except with everyone's mortal injuries visible. (The dead can also perform miracles, but only if they're nothing particularly special.) He's got a job in a pizzeria, and a bunch of go-nowhere friends-but then his old roommate, who's thrown himself out a window, turns up and tells Mordy that the girl he killed himself over has also done herself in. Mordy and his pal Uzi head off on a not-particularly-vigorous search for her and find that she's fallen in with someone who calls himself the Messiah King, who has plans of his own for the intentionally dead. As a satire of the culture of blankness, it's somewhat feeble-Keret spends so much time setting up the ground rules for his limbo that the plot barely has a chance to develop, and it's hard to work up much sympathy for any of his affectless suicides. Hanuka's duotone artwork improves as the story goes along, building to some eerie images of heavenly tedium. (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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