“Death And The Penguin” by Andrey Kurkov (1996)

“First, a stone landed a metre from Viktor’s foot.”

Travelling in time and space for this week’s book, and landing in Ukraine in the 1990s. With a penguin by my side. Because why wouldn’t you?

Viktor aspires to be a writer and would love to be penning short stories and making a fortune doing so, but instead he has to make a living composing obituaries for the newspaper. He dreams of seeing his work in print, but the subjects of his obituaries stubbornly cling to life. He has a quiet life, just h...