For Viktor, it is both a quest and an odyssey of atonement for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and black-humouredly illuminating as Death and the Penguin. Now, in Penguin Lost, we join Viktor for his brief stay in and escape from Antarctica to discover that, characteristically, he has fallen on his feet. Viktor helps in his campaign, and is rewarded with introductions to those able to further his desperate search for Misha, said to be in the zoo of the murderous Chechen Khachayev. He is first interrogated and then befriended by a Mafia boss who, while burying his contract-killed son-in-law, is also running for election as People's Deputy. Visiting, on his return to Kiev, Penguinologist Pidpaly's grave, Viktor mistakes an elusive child in white shirt and black shorts for Misha on funeral duty. Andrey Kurkov Paperback 256 pages Discover the darkly funny follow-up to cult classic Death and the PenguinViktor - last seen in Death and the Penguin. Now, in Penguin Lost, we join Viktor for his brief stay in and escape from Antarctica to discover that, characteristically, he has fallen on his feet. Meanwhile, Penguin Misha was left abandoned in a clinic recovering from a heart transplant. When last we saw Viktor, in the final pages of Death and the Penguin, he was taking his seat aboard the Expedition to Antarctica plane, fearing for his life.
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