Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Crime & Thrillers, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780099461692
Published: March 2005
Imprint: Vintage
Page Extent: 256
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

Penguin Lost

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About the book

'Rich, authentic and entertaining' New Statesman

Discover the darkly funny follow-up to cult classic Death and the Penguin


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,...

About the Author

Andrey Kurkov

Andrey Kurkov

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.

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