by Andrei Kurkov · Blackie Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419172846
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Viktor is a ruined writer who decides to adopt a penguin from the abandoned zoo. Misha, the penguin, is also depressed, but Viktor tries to console him. Everything gets complicated when Viktor is commissioned to write obituaries of public figures who are still alive, and they begin to die in strange circumstances. Viktor and Misha find themselves caught up in an absurd and violent plot. This novel is a mix of black humor and luminosity, reflecting life itself, like a penguin.
Andrii Yuriyovych Kurkov is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian and Ukrainian. He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin, nine books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction and TV movie scripts. His work is currently translated into 37 languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Persian and Hebrew, and published in 65 countries. Kurkov, who has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the international media, notably in Europe and the United States, has written assorted articles for various publications worldwide. His books are full of black humour, post-Soviet reality and elements of surrealism.
