The chief of police vanishes in the thin air, and Viktor contracts Nina as a maid for Sonya when he’s working or hiding from the people he believes are hunting him. First, he finds himself in charge of a young girl named Sonya, the daughter of the local chief of police. He becomes overly suspicious, and this leads him into getting into a series of strange relationships. However, he soon discovers that he’s writing obituaries for people who aren’t yet dead and that his subjects are murdered in mafia-style. Victor accepts that offer, but after accepting that request, mysterious events happen to “Victor” along the way. Still, instead of accepting Victor’s story, they offer him to write obituaries for the newspaper. The story kicks off with the time when Victor goes to newspapers to publish his last story.
In this novel, the author has beautifully painted the social atmosphere of Ukraine after the separation from the Soviet Union. The events in the story take place in the city of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The penguin plays a powerful presence in the story and is a motif for our main character’s state of mind. In Death and Penguin, Andrey Kurkov introduces us to the main character Viktor, an aspiring writer, who lives with Misha (Penguin) because the “penguins” maintenance department of Kyiv zoo is closed, that’s why Misha is next to Victor.
Some of Kurkov’s popular books are Smert Pingvina, translated as Death and the Penguin, and Zakon ulitki, translated as Penguin lost. He graduated from Kyiv Pedagogical Academy and later studied Japanese translation training. He was born in the town of Budogoszcz in Russia, but his family relocated to Kyiv, Ukraine, when he was young. Andrey Kurkov is a contemporary Ukrainian detective and fiction book author who writes in Ukrainian and Russian languages.
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