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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.