'The best book I've read this year...darkly comedic and full of tension and surprise'Marina Abramovic 'Life for sale.Use me as you wish.I am a twenty-seven-year-old male.Discretion guaranteed.Will cause no bother at all.'WhenHanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him,he putshis life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper,thus unleashing a series ofunimaginable exploits. A world of murderous mobsters,hidden cameras,avampire woman,poisoned carrots,code-breaking,a hopeless junkieheiress and makeshift explosives reveals itself to the unwitting hero.Is there nothing he can do to stop it Resolving to follow the orders ofhis would-be purchasers,he comes to understand what life is worth,andwhether we can indeed name our price.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241333150Number of pages: 192Weight: 146 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
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Yields a rare glimpse of the pulp-fiction flipside that partnered the rhapsodic and mystical Mishima... grotesque,melodramatic,spectacular,utterly sillyIt's funny and horrific and curious and thoroughly entertaining and should win Mishima a new generation of fansThere is a place in life for the exhilarating,surreal and sometimes downright silly. This novel ticks all the boxesSucceeds in capturing vividly the bathos of the self-pitying modern nihilist... the absurdity of life is conveyed through the tropes of pulp fiction and manga comicsAn engaging all-action satireA writer of immense energy and ability
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