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The powerHouse Arena invites you to the NYC book launch party for:

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

by Etgar Keret

featuring the author in conversation with Lorin Stein

Sunday, April 29, 6–8 pm

The powerHouse Arena · 37 Main Street (corner of Water & Main St.) · DUMBO, Brooklyn
For more information, please call 718.666.3049
rsvp: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com

Join FSG Originals and BOMB magazine for the New York City launch of Etgar Keret's Suddenly, a Knock on the Door.

Paris Review editor Lorin Stein will be on hand that evening to interview Etgar Keret on stage and a short reading will follow (possibly by a mystery guest). There will be a silent auction, featuring the winner of the Something out of Something art & design contest. Proceeds from the auction, which includes donations from David Polonsky, Tatia Rosenthal, and Asaf Hanuka, will benefit PEN American Center.

About Suddenly, a Knock on the Door:

Fans of This American Life have long been familiar with the Israeli short-story writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret and his odd brand of humor and observation. Writers as varied as Salman Rushdie, Miranda July, Yann Martel, and Gary Shteyngart have heaped praise on his earlier collections. The proportions of his stories have actually inspired a Polish architect to build the thinnest house in the world (expected completion spring 2012). It is difficult to find a new way to describe Keret and his work, and even "genius" and "voice of the next generation" have already been invoked.

Etgar Keret's short tales have always resisted classification. Are they fables? Are they forays into the Israeli unconscious? How can they be so funny and so devastatingly sad at the same time? Can you even call Suddenly, a Knock on the Door a "story collection"? Perhaps Jonathan Safran Foer put it best when he wrote, "It's tempting to say these stories are his most Kafkaesque, but in fact they are his most Keretesque."

Exuding a rare combination of depth and accessibility, Keret's tales overflow with absurdity, humor, sadness, and compassion, and though their circumstances are often strange and surreal, his characters are defined by a familiar and fierce humanity. "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is at once Keret's most mature and most playful work yet, and establishes him as one of the great global writers of the twenty-first century," (GQ.com).

About Etgar Keret:

Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is the author of six bestselling story collections. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope. Jellyfish, his first movie as a director along with his wife, Shira Geffen, won the Caméra d'Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010, he was named a Chevalier of France's Order of Arts and Letters.



For more information, please contact Lena Valencia, Events Coordinator:
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
tel: 718.666.3049 fax: 212.366.5247 email: lena@powerHouseArena.com