Suddenly, a Knock on the Door - Softcover

Keret, Etgar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099563320 ISBN 13: 9780099563327

Publisher: Vintage, 2013

Synopsis

Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this bestselling collection.

A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from the real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that all the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is at once Keret's most mature and most playful work yet, and establishes him as one of the great international writers of our time.

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

From the critically acclaimed master short-story teller Etgar Keret, comes this long-awaited and bestselling collection

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0099563320
• ISBN 13: 9780099563327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304