Kumiko saw it first. A heart - a human heart - slithering down outside the window of a train travelling between London Bridge and Blackfriars. Someone must have thrown it out from a carriage in front. Kumiko is determined to find out who - and why.But Skelton was sitting next to Kumiko on the train and he saw it too, so he also wants to get to the bottom of the mystery. Or he says he does, but really he just wants Kumiko back, because she''s walked out on him, just like that, and left him heartbroken.Each for their own reasons, Kumiko and Skelton set out - separately - on a bizarre trail of discovery. Darting between dingy student pubs, the roofs of Borough Market and the corridors and car-parks of Guy''s Hospital, they become embroiled in the seedy world of young medical students, until eventually the gossip and the stories lead them both to the hospital''s infamous dissection lecturer - known behind his back as ''King Death'' …
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141039725
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 27/05/2010
Año de edición: 2010
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Toby Litt
Toby Litt nació en 1968 en el Reino Unido y creció en Ampthill, Bedfordshire. Es traductor de poesía francesa y checa al inglés. Tusquets Editores publicó en 2002 la novela Muerte en directo, a la que siguió, en 2004, Canciones de los niños muertos, y próximamente sacará a la luz Ghost Story. Litt es, además, autor de los libros de relatos Adventures in Capitalism (1996) y Exhibitionism (2002), y de la novela Beatniks (1997).