num_pages: 112
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 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 judgment. 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? This darkly funny tale is Kurkov on top form.
language: English
title: A Matter оf Death аnd Life
titlecomplete: A Matter оf Death аnd Life
genres: Fiction, European Literature, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Russian Literature, Ukraine, Novella, Literary Fiction, Russia
ratings_count: 1377
publisher: Vintage