Death And The Penguin

Author: Andrey Kurkov

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  • : $27.00 AUD
  • : 9781860469459
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : December 2001
  • : 26.99
  • : May 2003
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  • : Andrey Kurkov
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9781860469459
9781860469459

Description

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 he 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.

Awards

Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2002.

Author description

ANDREY KURKOV, born in St Petersburg in 1961, now lives in Kiev. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder at Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels including Death and the Penguin.