Book description
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.
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.
