A Matter of Death and Life - Softcover

Kurkov, Andrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099461587 ISBN 13: 9780099461586

Publisher: Vintage, 2006

Synopsis

Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer?

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.

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?

'Kurkov's eye for the absurdities of Ukrainian life is as sharp as ever' - Sunday Telegraph

About this title

Review:

"Kurkov's eye for the absurdities of Ukrainian life is as sharp as ever" (Sunday Telegraph)

"A perfectly balanced read" (Scotland on Sunday)

"A brilliant black comedy" (Evening Standard)

"Excellent... Blackly comic. Remarkable" (New York Times)

"Kurkov conjures up both Gogol and Dostoevsky... Genuinely original" (Scotsman)

From the Publisher:

With a style ranging from the sombre to the quietly hilarious, Kurkov's is a world in which we accept the ordinariness of the absurd. Another modern masterpiece from the author of the highly acclaimed Death and the Penguin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0099461587
• ISBN 13: 9780099461586
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112