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Death And The Penguin
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  • Published: 15 June 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860469459
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99

Death And The Penguin

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29 Oct 2024
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15 June 2002
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In today's Ukraine, all that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although Viktor would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper to see his work in print for the first time, his pride swiftly turns to terror. He and Misha have been drawn into a trap from which there appears to be no escape.
  • Published: 15 June 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860469459
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Andrey Kurkov

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 writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin. Kurkov has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the world’s media, notably in the UK, France, Germany and the States.
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Praise for Death And The Penguin

'Our anti-hero finds himself writing obituaries for soon to be deceased undesirables in the chaotic and dangerous modern Ukraine, macaberly observed by his depressed pet King Penguin Misha. Immensely readable with terrifically dark humour, loved it.'

Wayne Winstone, Ottakars