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Mort är en föga löftesrik tonåring med den sorts kropp som bara marginellt verkar stå under sin ägares kontroll; den tycks vara konstruerad av enbart knän. Mot alla odds lyckas han få arbete som lärling. Det är döden som anställer honom. Men Mort visar sig snart vara allt annat än lämpad till att slussa själar bort från världen.
Faktum är att när det gäller den ganska attraktiva prinsessan Keli (som ska lönnmördas), trampar Mort totalt i klaveret. Han dödar lönnmördaren istället, och lägger sig därmed i Ödets obevekliga arbete.
Men verkligheten ändras inte så lätt; historien, som den skulle ha utspelat sig, börjar ta form runt prinsessan Kelis stadsstat Sto Lat. Kan Mort rädda Keli innan hon pressas ur tillvaron?
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This is the book that will get me into Discworld. A great book, still thinking about it
The fourth Discworld novel. Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received an offer he can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse and being dead isn't compulsory. It's the dream job until he discovers that it can be a killer on his love life.
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
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