Death and the Penguin
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Product details
- ISBN 9781860469459
- Weight: 170g
- Dimensions: 129 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2002
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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All that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.
Viktor writes obituaries for a newspaper in Kyiv; the only creature he trusts is his pet penguin, Misha. But when his ‘subjects’ start dying while their tributes sit in his drawer, Viktor realises he’s writing death notices to order.
Bleakly funny and quietly tragic, Death and the Penguin captures life in a collapsing world where conscience and corruption blur. Kurkov’s understated prose turns absurdity into menace - a masterpiece of Eastern European noir with feathers and frostbite.
‘A tragicomic masterpiece’ Daily Telegraph
‘A black comedy of rare distinction’ Spectator
Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the cult bestseller Death and the Penguin.
