**A masterful tale set in post-Soviet Kiev that's both darkly-funny and ominous...** In the widely hailed prequel to _Penguin Lost_ , aspiring writer Viktor Zolotaryov leads a down-and-out life in poverty-and-violence-wracked Kiev--he's out of work and his only friend is a penguin, Misha, that
Death And The Penguin
β Scribed by Kurkov, Andrey
- Book ID
- 109114585
- Publisher
- Vintage Digital
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Overview: Ukrainian writer writing in Russian. He was born in small town Budogoszcz in Leningrad area. In 1983 in Kiev he graduated Kiev Pedagogical Academy of Foreign Languages. He started writing in age of six and he had a hobby of collecting cactuses - he collected nearly 1,500 of them. Ambitiously he wanted to learn their latin names. Thanks to that he had learned such languages such as English, French, Japanease, Georgian and Polish. He became a Japanese trained translator.
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