'Rich, authentic and entertaining' New Statesman Discover the darkly funny follow-up to cult classic Death and the Penguin Viktor - last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then convalescent from a heart-transplant, Viktor determines to make amends. Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who engages him to help in his election campaign, then introduces him to men who might further his search for Misha, said to be in a private zoo in Chechnya. What ensues is for Viktor both a quest and an odyssey of atonement, and, for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and illuminating as Death and the Penguin.— Google Books

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The Guardianby David Jays · Mar 2005
<p>A slender volume from Andrey Kurkov's back catalogue, A Matter of Death, does him little favours, says David Jays.</p>
The Guardianby Michel Faber · Mar 2004
<p>Andrey Kurkov's Peguin Lost is a sequel that swaps dignity for farce, finds Michel Faber</p>

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