Christopher Tayler, Sunday Telegraph
'A tragi-farcical yet meditative novella'
(Omer Ali, Time Out)
'This little book is truly very funny'
Christopher Tayler, Sunday Telegraph
A tragi-farcical yet meditative novella.
Omer Ali, Time Out
This little book is truly very funny.
Book Description
Keynote/Publisher's Comment 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.
Product Description
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 in which caf- 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 judgment. Our perpetually glum hero meticulously plans his own demise, expect for one detail: if he suddenly decides he wants to live, what then? This darkly funny tale is Kurkov on top form. (20040624)
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 the Author
ANDREY KURKOV, born in St Petersburg in 1961, now lives in Kiev. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder at Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels. (20040624)
