From the critically acclaimed master short-story teller Etgar Keret, comes this long-awaited and bestselling collection
Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is one of the leading voices in Israeli literature and cinema. He is the author of five bestselling collections, which have been translated into twenty-nine languages. His writing has been published in the New York Times, le Monde, the Guardian, the Paris Review and Zoetrope. He has also written a number of award-winning screenplays, and Jellyfish, the first film that he directed -along with his wife Shira Geffen - won the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 he was awarded the Chevalier medallion of France's Order of Arts and Letters.
Etgar Keret has written several great books, but this is his
greatest. These stories are the most funny, dark and poignant I've
read in a long time. It's tempting to say they are his most
Kafkaesque, but in fact they are his most Keretesque
*Jonathan Safran Foer*
Distinctive, understated and very funny... If you read only one
book of short stories this year, it should be this one
*Daily Mail*
Etgar Keret is a great short story writer whose work is all the
greater because it’s funny...The stories are all
thought-experiments. What if, they ask. Why not? And, what the
heck? Like all art, they are highly patterned, highly charged,
refracted reflections on the chaos and randomness of everyday
existence
*Guardian*
A maddening, abruptly moving and effortlessly funny collection ...
Clever, relevant and oddly resonant, Suddenly a Knock on the Door
is Keret’s best, most mature work and the perfect introduction to
his sad, strange and moving fiction
*Independent*
At once sophisticated and anti-literary, extremely funny and slyly
serious. While invariably set in contemporary Israel, and full of
sex and violence, they also hark back to older storytelling
traditions such as the parable, the folk tale and the absurdist
fiction of Gogol and Kafka
*Observer*
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