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From the critically acclaimed master short-story teller Etgar Keret, his long-awaited and biggest selling collection - the first in nearly ten years.
Hilarious, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this, his sixth bestselling collection. Long a household name in Israel, where he has been declared the voice of his generation, Keret has been acknowledged as one of the country's most radical and extraordinary writers. Exuding a rare combination of depth and accessibility, Keret's tales overflow with absurdity, humour, longing and compassion, and though their circumstances are often strange and surreal, his characters are defined by a familiar and fierce humanity.
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 global writers of our time.
About the Author
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, his first film as a director 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 is the author of the short story collections: KNELLER'S HAPPY CAMPERS, MISSING KISSINGER and THE NIMROD FLIP-OUT.
Salman Rushdie calls him "a brilliant writer - completely unlike any writer I know. The voice of the next generation".
Clive James describes him as "one of the most important writers alive - enchantingly witty".
According to the New York Times, he is simply a genius.
Etgar Keret has long had a cult but he deserves so much more. His latest collection of short stories, Suddenly, a Knock on the Door, is original, dark, edgy, funny and poignant all at the same time.
Keret serves up bite-size morsels of satire, realism and absurdism - the perfect combination for anyone suffering from the bloated , overblown hyperbole that constitutes so much of the the best sellers list.
ISBN: 9781742752778
ISBN-10: 1742752772
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 1st February 2012
Publisher: Random House Australia
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 13.0
x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.21
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