Suddenly, a Knock on the Door: Stories by Etgar Keret & Nathan Englander & Miriam Shlesinger & Sondra Silverston

Author:Etgar Keret & Nathan Englander & Miriam Shlesinger & Sondra Silverston
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780374533335
Publisher: FSG Originals
Published: 2012-03-26T17:00:00+00:00

CONGESTION ON THE COASTAL ROAD

One weekend when they were returning with their daughter from a visit to his wife’s parents on a kibbutz, they passed a two-car collision. The drivers ahead of them slowed down to rubberneck, and his wife said it was disgusting, and that only in Israel did people behave that way. Their daughter, who’d been asleep in the back, woke up because of the ambulance sirens. She put her face up to the window and looked out at a man covered in blood, unconscious, being carried away on a stretcher. She asked them where they were taking him, and Oshri told her they were taking him to a good place. A place filled with colors and tastes and smells that you couldn’t even imagine. He told her about that place, about how your body becomes weightless there, and how even though you don’t want anything, everything there comes true. How there’s no fear there, so that even if something is going to hurt, when it happens it turns into just another kind of feeling, a feeling that you’re grateful to be able to have. He went on and on until he noticed the angry look on his wife’s face. On the radio they reported heavy traffic on the highway, and when he looked in the rearview mirror again he could see Meital smiling and waving bye-bye at the man on the stretcher.

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