Death and the Penguin

Book • 1996

Mentioned by

Mentioned by Richard Cockett as a black comedy revolving around a writer and his penguin in post-Soviet Eastern Europe.

Recommended by

Ed Gillespie

as a "delicate work of genius" with dark satire.

Recommended by Richard Cockett as a black comedy revolving around a writer and his penguin in post-Soviet Eastern Europe.

Mentioned by

Anya Leonard

as one of her favorite short books.

Mentioned by

Lise Doucet

as an example of a writer whose work has become more pertinent due to the war in Ukraine.

Recommended by

Olga Robinson

as a book with resonance to the Ukrainian war.

Mentioned as

Andrey Kurkov

's best-known novel, set in post-Soviet Ukraine.

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