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Death and the Penguin

By Andrey Kurkov

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| Paperback | 9781860469459

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A devastating satire - of the worlds of mafia and media, of politics and penguins - in the tradition of the master of 20th century satire, Mikhail Bulgakov.

Victor is depressed: his lover has dumped him, his short stories are too short and the light has gone off in his dingy apartment. His onContinue

A devastating satire - of the worlds of mafia and media, of politics and penguins - in the tradition of the master of 20th century satire, Mikhail Bulgakov.

Victor is depressed: his lover has dumped him, his short stories are too short and the light has gone off in his dingy apartment. His only companion is Misha, the penguin he rescued from Kiev's Zoo, when it couldn't feed the animals anymore. Misha is the silent witness to Victor's despair. Misha joins in his celebration - fish and vodka - when Victor's luck seems to turn: He is commissioned to write obituaries under the pen-name "A Group of Friends". The weird thing is that the editor wants him to select subjects who are still alive, the movers and the shakers of the new, post-Communist society. Pleased with Victor's work the editor sends him his friend, also called Misha, and from then onwards known as Misha non-penguin, who commissions Victor to write an obituary about one of his shady associates. After a job-well-done Misha non-penguin and Victor get drunk on vodka and Victor confesses that he is frustrated as an obituary writer: his subjects refuse to die. The next morning his most prominent one, a corrupt politician with Mafia ties and a mistress, is dead. The tide has turned.

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  • Death and the Penguin

    A familiar melancholy pervades Andrey Kurkov's astonishing novel Death and the Penguin. It is the ingrained sadness of the alienated, powerless man, the perennial hero of so much Russian and Eastern European fiction. We meet Vicktor Zolotaryov, an un ... (read full critics)

    barnesandnoble published on Tue, 16 Aug 2011

  • Death and the Penguin

    A familiar melancholy pervades Andrey Kurkov's astonishing novel Death and the Penguin. It is the ingrained sadness of the alienated, powerless man, the perennial hero of so much Russian and Eastern European fiction. We meet Vicktor Zolotaryov, an un ... (read full critics)

    barnesandnoble published on Wed, 10 Aug 2011

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  • Paperback 227 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 1860469450
  • ISBN-13: 9781860469459
  • Publisher: Harvill Press
  • Pub date: Mar 21, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Others and eBook
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