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        Etgar Keret

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        Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

        By: Etgar Keret

        Narrarated by: Michael Chabon, Gary Shteyngart, Robert Wisdom, Scott Shepherd, Rick Moody, Stanley Tucci, Josh Radnor, Shalom Auslander, Etgar Keret, Dave Eggers, Nathan Englander, George Saunders, Miranda July, Ben Marcus, Willem Dafoe, David Rakoff, Various - Suddenly, a Knock on the Door, Aimee Bender, John Sayles, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ira Glass, Nicole Krauss, Josh Charles, Ben Foster

        Read by an all-star cast and featuring a bonus story special to the audio edition, Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is a one-of-a-kind audiobook program.

        Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret’s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams and waking life coexist in an uneasy world. Overflowing with absurdity, humor, sadness, and compassion, the tales in Suddenly, a Knock on the Door establish Etgar Keret—declared a “genius” by The New York Times—as one of the most original writers of his generation.

        Audio Track listing:
        Suddenly, a Knock on the Door: Read by Ira Glass
        Lieland: Read by Adam Thirlwell
        Cheesus Christ: Read by Dave Eggers
        Simyon: Read by Nicole Krauss
        Shut: Read by George Saunders
        Healthy Start: Read by Ben Foster
        Teamwork: Read by Mathieu Amalric
        Pudding: Read by Aimee Bender
        Unzipping: Read by Miranda July
        The Polite Little Boy: Read by Ben Marcus
        Mystique: Read by Willem Dafoe
        Creative Writing: Read by Stanley Tucci
        Snot: Read by John Sayles
        Grab the Cuckoo by the Tail: Read by Gary Shteyngart
        Pick a Color: Read by Robert Wisdom
        Black and Blue: Read by Stella Schnabel
        What Do We Have in Our Pockets?: Read by Michael Chabon
        Bad Karma: Read by Lorin Stein
        Ari: Read by Rick Moody
        Bitch: Read by Nathan Englander
        The Story, Victorious: Read by Scott Shepherd
        A Good One: Read by David Rakoff
        What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?: Read by Gary Shteyngart
        Not Completely Alone: Read by Michael Chernus
        One Step Beyond: Read by Shea Wigham
        Big Blue Bus: Read by Josh Charles
        Hemorrhoid: Read by Michael Buscemi
        September All Year Long: Read by Neal Stephenson
        Joseph: Read by Mark Duplass
        Mourners Meal: Read by Shalom Auslander
        Parallel Universes: Read by Todd Hasak-Lowy
        Upgrade: Read by Josh Radnor
        Guava: Read by Ira Glass
        Surprise Party: Read by Scott Shepherd
        What Animal Are You?: Read by Jonathan Safran Foer
        Asthma Attack: Read by Etgar Keret

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        Total File Size: 138 MB (4 files) Total Length: 5 Hours, 3 Minutes

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        06.14.12
        Etgar Keret, Suddenly, a Knock at the Door
        2012 | Label: Macmillan Audio

        Stories about loneliness, alienation, depression and death in worlds of magical realism

        It might seem a bit odd to call Etgar Keret’s collection Suddenly, a Knock at the Door a delight. It’s 35 stories about loneliness, alienation, depression and death that shoot out at a blistering pace. But there’s a disorienting hopefulness to many of them. Narrated by a who’s who of literati, artists and actors, including Dave Eggers, Miranda July, Stanley Tucci and Neal Stephenson, Keret’s stories exist in worlds of magical realism. Bodies literally unzip to reveal entirely different people underneath the skin and dreams become portals to new, entirely real dimensions — where life is still unpleasantly banal. These are places in which everything is ordinary and nothing quite makes sense.

        Keret is Israeli, and much of Suddenly is an examination of that nation’s psyche, battered as it is by suicide bombings, isolation, and ideological division. In “Healthy Start,” one of the standouts in this strong collection, the actor Ben Foster narrates the story of Avichai, a man who, after being left by his partner, finds that no one quite seems to know who he is. Mistaken for several other men, he decides to abandon his own identity as easily as others have abandoned him.
        For these characters, the more unpleasant parts of life are made simultaneously more and less ordinary compared to the stranger events that befall them. Death is still something terrifying, incomprehensible, and sad, but is it any more so than finding an unpleasant German man inside one’s lover? Keret’s stories, in all of their sweet distress, say no.

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