Death and the Penguin
$21.24
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
A blackly comic, bittersweet satirical novel about Ukraine, a writer and a pet penguin.
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 h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879075 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178487907X |
| Author: | Andrey Kurkov |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Andrey Kurkov
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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