Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

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...