Tag Archives: Andrey Kurkov

What a strange and beautiful book this was. Set in Ukraine in the immediate post Soviet era the book follows Viktor, a wannabe writer who takes a job for a newspaper writing obituaries for (not yet dead) important people. Viktor lives in a small flat with his penguin (the local zoo was so short ofContinue reading “Death and the Penguin – Andrey Kurkov – 01.04.24”