Sondra Silverston is a native New Yorker who, since 1970, has lived in Israel, where she teaches literary translation at Beit Berl College. Her other translations of Etgar Keret include Chatto & Windus’s The Nimrod Flipout and Missing Kissinger (shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award), as well as The Girl of the Fridge, from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.