Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov Reviews

Viktor, a 40-year-old would-be writer lives alone. He has no family, no friends, no colleagues, only a pet, a king penguin called Misha, which he got from the zoo in Kiev when animals were given away because they couldn't be fed any more*. One day he gets lucky when a local newspaper editor hires him, he's to compose obituaries of Ukrainian ...  Read the complete review

Death and the Penguin is a strange, surreal novel, which centres around the life Viktor Alekseyevich Zolotaryov and his pet penguin Micha. The novel was originally written in Russian by the Ukranian Andrey Korkov, and has a dream like quality to it, where all the protagonists seem to be overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness and a lack of ...  Read the complete review