Andrey Kurkov: Death and the Penguin

Cover: 9781784879075 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | Taschenbuch | Vintage Classics

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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

All that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.

'A tragicomic masterpiece' Daily Telegraph

'A black comedy of rare distinction' Spectator

Über den Autor

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Vintage Classics
Inhalt:	XIV 242 S.
ISBN-13:	9781784879075
ISBN-10:	178487907X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kurkov, Andrey
Übersetzung:	George Bird
Hersteller:	Random House UK Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	198 x 128 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrey Kurkov
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.08.2024
Gewicht:	0,185 kg