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This past Shabbat was also Yom Kippur, which is the writer Etgar Keret\\u2019s favorite holiday. This week, host Marcela Sulak reads his piece, \\u201cSwede Dreams,\\u201d originally published in The Tablet, and which you can find in his memoir, \\u201cThe Seven Good Years,\\u201d translated by Sondra Sondra Silverston. It is about Keret\\u2019s 2009 visit to Sweden, just before Yom Kippur.

Here is an excerpt:

The Swedes listened and were fascinated. The thought of a day on which no motorized vehicles drive through the cities, people walk around without their wallets and all the stores are closed, a day on which there are no TV broadcasts or even updates on websites\\u2013all sounded to them like an innovative Naomi Klein concept and not like an ancient Jewish holiday.

Text:
Etgar Keret, \\u201cSwede Dreams,\\u201d in \\u201cThe Seven Good Years: A Memoir.\\u201d Translated by Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, and Anthony Berris. New York: Riverhead Books, 2015.