Death and the Penguin: A darkly comic Ukrainian literary crime novel about guilt and survival - Softcover

Kurkov, Andrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860469450 ISBN 13: 9781860469459

Verlag: Vintage, 2002

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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

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Andrey Kurkov is a writer, journalist, and the current president of PEN Ukraine. He 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 U.K., France, Germany, and the United States.

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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. But when he opens the newspaper to see his work in print for the first time, his pride swiftly turns to terror.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1860469450
• ISBN 13: 9781860469459
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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