Penguin Lost picks up with Viktor in the Antarctica, on the run from gangsters who want him dead. But more importantly, Viktor also abandons his penguin Misha just as he is about to undergo a heart transplant. He doesn’t pay too much attention to the fact that he’s writing obituaries of people who haven’t died yet, but after a while, as those he’s profiled start dying in various creative ways, he begins to ask questions and is told: “The less you know, the longer you live.” By the end of the novel, Viktor, caught between rival gang factions, is forced to abandon his apartment, a child left in his care named Sonya, and sort-of-girlfriend Nina (employed to take care of Sonya). In the first book, unemployed Kiev writer Viktor Alekseyevich Zolotaryov appears to be in luck when he accepts a job writing obituaries. Especially when they show such a taste for luxury.”Īndrey Kurkov’s entertaining novel Penguin Lost is the sequel to Death and the Penguin.
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