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|title=Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

|author=Etgar Keret

|publisher=Chatto & Windus

|date=February 2012

|summary=A good collection of stories from Israel, if you gel with the author's open-endedness and sense of humour.

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In the opening, titular story, Keret is forced by several people to create, and alter, a short short story. It's a plain metaphor for the history of Israel, but it proves that this modern Scheherazade is not too far removed geographically from the original. And what follows are probably the sort of short, tantalising, open-ended, rough-round-the-edges and surreal results of being compelled to carry on telling tall tales on a nightly basis.

So this, combining a welter of depth in variety, a great opportunity to think your own way to finishing the pieces contained here, and a brilliant calling card for a very singular author's quirky sense of absurdist humour, can certainly be recommended for fans of brief, unusual works. If it gets too surreal, too bitty or too oddball, please don't blame me - I wasn't one of the ones forcing him to write these.

If you did enjoy this, there is little reason not to take a Spanish flavour of fiction, with [[While the Women are Sleeping by Javier Marias|that aforementioned Marias book]].