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Penguin Lost
Andrey Kurkov
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Description for Penguin Lost
paperback. Viktor Zolotaryov - last seen in 'Death and the Penguin' fleeing mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes, once there, a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Translator(s): Bird, George. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
'Rich, authentic and entertaining' New Statesman
Discover the darkly funny follow-up to cult classic Death and the Penguin
Viktor - last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then convalescent from a heart-transplant, Viktor determines to make amends. Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who engages him to help in his election campaign, then introduces him to men who might further his search for Misha, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099461692
SKU
V9780099461692
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Ref
99-98
About Andrey Kurkov
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.
Reviews for Penguin Lost
Delicious – when Viktor finally finds Misha it is as if Woody Allen had gone to meet Kurtz
Spectator
There is more magic in his realism than in a library of witches and wizards
Scotland on Sunday
Rich, authentic and entertaining
New Statesman
This grotesque post-Soviet world is tinged with Dostoevskian absurdity
Independent ... Read more
Spectator
There is more magic in his realism than in a library of witches and wizards
Scotland on Sunday
Rich, authentic and entertaining
New Statesman
This grotesque post-Soviet world is tinged with Dostoevskian absurdity
Independent ... Read more