Penguin Lost

by Andrey Kurkov (Author), Andrey Kurkov (Author), Andrey Kurkov (Author)

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2005
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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, said to be in a private zoo in Chechnya. What ensues is for Viktor both a quest and an odyssey of atonement, and, for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and illuminating as Death and the Penguin.

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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, said to be in a private zoo in Chechnya. What ensues is for Viktor both a quest and an odyssey of atonement, and, for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and illuminating as Death and the Penguin.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 0099461692
ISBN 13: 9780099461692
Book Overview: 'A darkly comic and offbeat journey. P-p-p-pick it up!' - Scotsman

Media Reviews

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 *
Death and the Penguin was praised for its brutal humour, tender humanity and all-out guts. Penguin Lost is a sequel equally superlative and twice as readable * Ink *

Author Bio

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.