'Rich,authentic and entertaining'New StatesmanDiscover the darkly funny follow-up to cult classic Death and the PenguinViktor - 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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099461692Number of pages: 256Weight: 181 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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Delicious - when Viktor finally finds Misha it is as if Woody Allen had gone to meet KurtzThere is more magic in his realism than in a library of witches and wizardsRich,authentic and entertainingThis grotesque post-Soviet world is tinged with Dostoevskian absurdityDeath 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
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