A Matter Of Death And Life

Zusatztext

<p><b>Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer?</b></p><p>Nothing easier, provided you communicate only by phone and box number. You give him your photograph, specify when and where to find you, then sit back and prepare to die.</p><p>Murdered, you will be of greater interest than ever you were in life. More to him than met the eye will be the judgement. A mysterious killing lives long in the popular memory. Our hero meticulously plans his own demise, except for one detail: what if he suddenly decides he wants to live?</p><p><b>'Kurkov's eye for the absurdities of Ukrainian life is as sharp as ever' -<i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b></p>

Autorenportrait

Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the cult bestseller<i>Death and the Penguin</i>.

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