Death and the Penguin
Death and the Penguin
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Zusammenfassung
Viktor is desperate: how can he earn a living as a writer when he has a drawer full of unfinished manuscripts? Then he is asked to write the obituaries of Kiev's VIPs, to be kept on file should they die. His pride at being published soons turns to horror as he is drawn into a terrible conspiracy.
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Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Viktor is desperate: how can he earn a living as a writer when he has a drawer full of unfinished manuscripts? Then he is asked to write the obituaries of Kiev's VIPs, to be kept on file should they die. His pride at being published soons turns to horror as he is drawn into a terrible conspiracy.
Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin. Kurkov has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the world's media, notably in the UK, France, Germany and the States.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781860468353 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860468357 |
| Titel | Death and the Penguin |
| Autor | Andrey Kurkov |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Vintage Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2001-03-22 |
| Seitenanzahl | 192 |
| Preise | Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2002 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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