In today's Ukraine, all that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.
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 film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the cult bestseller Death and the Penguin.
A tragicomic masterpiece * Daily Telegraph *
The deadpan tone works perfectly and it will be a hard-hearted
reader who is not touched by Viktor's relationship with his unusual
pet * The Times *
A black comedy of rare dinstinction and the penguin is an invention
of genius * Spectator *
A chilling black comedy * Guardian *
A striking portrait of post-Soviet isolation... In this bleak moral
landscape Kurkov manages to find ample refuge for his dark humour *
New York Times *
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