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Fang Tie, about whom limited public information is available, appears from the four works held in the collection to focus on translating the Israeli writer Etgar Keret into Chinese. The representative translations include the five-volume Short Story Master Etgar Keret: A New Translation of the Out-of-Print Stories of Ten Years, The Seven Good Years, Fly Already, and The Last Story, Just Like That. All of these fall under foreign literature, consisting mainly of short stories along with a longer work with autobiographical elements. Keret's writing often deals with the difficulties of daily life and the subtleties of human nature in an absurd, humorous, and slightly melancholy tone, and Fang Tie's translations undertake the task of conveying that voice and rhythm to Chinese readers. As biographical information is currently lacking, his translation style and contribution await further material for a fuller picture.