A Matter of Death and Life

Informationen zum Autor Andrey Kurkov is a writer, journalist, and the current president of PEN Ukraine. He 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 writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin . Kurkov has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the world's media, notably in the U.K., France, Germany, and the United States. Klappentext A darkly funny tale about a man who wishes to seem more interesting to people by having himself killed by a contract killer. Everything is going to plan until he decides he would quite like to keep on living. Zusammenfassung Sick of life? Murdered, you will be of greater interest than ever you were in life. 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

Product details

• Authors: Andrei Kurkov, Andrey Kurkov
• Assisted by: George Bird (Translation), Bird George (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2006
• EAN: 9780099461586
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946158-6
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Ukraine, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Psychological, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Satirical fiction and parodies, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary