Death and the penguin
By: Andrey Kurkov ; translated from the Russian by George Bird.
Contributors: Bird, George.
Publisher: Harvill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Description: Viktor is desperate: how can he earn a living as a writer when he has a drawer full of unfinished manuscripts? Then he is asked to write the obituaries of Kiev's VIPs, to be kept on file should they die. His pride at being published soons turns to horror as he is drawn into a terrible conspiracy.