De Repente Un Toquido En La Puerta (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
In this collection of short stories, things happen. Sometimes. Sometimes things don't happen. Even when things do happen, they don't really make sense unless you think about them really hard and then sometimes they make so much sense that you get really sad, but not in a way that you can explain because it's difficult to explain that you were really sad' that that one character unzipped the other characters tongue and then just got rid of the skin because, seriously, what's up with that and also that kid with the model airplane what the heck was up with that kid I think I'm going to cry now. But it's a good book. Etgar Keret is his generation's greatest writer of short stories. He is a crazy, wacky, clever, concise & gifted storyteller. Sometimes, though, the point of his stories are hidden and at times buried. Clever with enough comedic punch to carry each story without giving too much, nothing is predictable in these stories. Made me see old things in new ways, the best thing a story can do. Sense for the absurd, short stories with open ends, realistic interpersonal relations even if they don't look pretty, dark humor, it does have a lot to do with the reality in Israel but not just. Weird, sad, cruel, humorous like life, some stories begin and end abruptly like glimpses into someone else’s life through a keyhole. Loneliness, unrequited love, marital tensions, the difficulties of being a divorced parent. What a delight… Read everything he writes.
What do You think about De Repente Un Toquido En La Puerta (2010)?
Funny, sad, clever, weird, smart and just all around great.
—mzzmoya
I listened to the audiobook version of this. good
—Vani
