Death and the Penguin

Informationen zum Autor Andrey Kurkov Klappentext Andrey Kurkov 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 film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the cult bestseller Death and the Penguin . Zusammenfassung Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. But when he opens the newspaper to see his work in print for the first time, his pride swiftly turns to terror.

Report

The deadpan tone works perfectly and it will be a hard-hearted reader who is not touched by Viktor's relationship with his unusual pet The Times

Product details

• Authors: Andrey Kurkov, Andrej Kurkow
• Assisted by: George Bird (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.02.2002
• EAN: 9781860469459
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-945-9
• No. of pages: 227
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 195 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Panther Paperbacks; Panther Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.)