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Title: Death and the Penguin
Author: Andrey Kurkov
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 228
Date read: April, 2018

In today's Ukraine, all that stands between one man and murder by the Mafia is a penguin.

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. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper to find his work in printfor the first time, his pride swiftly turns to terror. He and Misha have been drawn into a trap form which there appears to be no escape.


Very strange and quirky little book. Slow-moving, but in no way boring. Written by a Ukranian so quite different in style from what I'm used to. I neither liked it nor disliked it, but found it interesting to consider how differently the plot would have been handled if written by an author of another nationality.

It held my interest, but though left with an open ending, I'm in no rush to continue on with the next one.

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