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 in which cafe 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. A mysterious killing lives long in the popular memory.
As with Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, so with our hero: meticulous planning, nothing left to chance. Nothing, beyond that chance is not predictable. Raskolnikov, intending to kill one, kills two, and our hero suddenly wants to live.
The setting for this intriguing tale is a snowy Kiev as immediate as Simenon's Paris and Conan Doyle's London.
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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.
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 *
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