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'A darkly comic and offbeat journey. P-p-p-pick it up!' - Scotsman

About the Author

Andrey Kurkov, born in St Petersburg in 1961, now lives in Kiev. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder at Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels.

Reviews

Delicious – when Viktor finally finds Misha it is as if Woody Allen had gone to meet Kurtz
*Spectator*

There is more magic in his realism than in a library of witches and wizards
*Scotland on Sunday*

Rich, authentic and entertaining
*New Statesman*

This grotesque post-Soviet world is tinged with Dostoevskian absurdity
*Independent*

Death 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
*Ink*

Delicious - when Viktor finally finds Misha it is as if Woody Allen had gone to meet Kurtz * Spectator *
There is more magic in his realism than in a library of witches and wizards * Scotland on Sunday *
Rich, authentic and entertaining * New Statesman *
This grotesque post-Soviet world is tinged with Dostoevskian absurdity * Independent *
Death 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 * Ink *