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Der verkaufte Tod

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Das Leben des US-Millionärs Edward Burten und des an der Armutsgrenze lebenden Inders Tawan Alipur könnte unterschiedlicher nicht sein – und doch vereint sie ein untrennbares Schicksal.
Burten, der mit einem unheilbaren Nierenleiden zu kämpfen hat, sieht nur noch einen einzigen Ausweg: Die Transplantation einer Spenderniere in Indien. Tawan hingegen möchte seiner Nichte endlich ein besseres Leben ermöglichen – der Verkauf seiner Niere erscheint ihm als einzige Möglichkeit, für die kleine Vinja sorgen zu können.

Konsalik, der Meister der Spannungsliteratur, widmet sich mit »Der verkaufte Tod« einem nach wie vor brisanten Thema: Eine packende Geschichte, die die unmenschlichen Zustände des Organhandels enthüllt und zum Nachdenken bewegt.

317 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1992

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Heinz G. Konsalik

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Heinz G. Konsalik (pseudonym of Heinz Günther) was a German novelist.

Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, for instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (The Mutilated Face), which deals with a German soldier's recovery after his sledge ran over a personnel mine and destroyed his face, and how this affected his relationship with his wife at home. It places no judgment on the German position in the war and simply deals with human beings in often desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German military law.

Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted into a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold of his 155 novels made him the most popular German novelist of the postwar era and many of his novels were translated and sold through book clubs. He is buried in Cologne.

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