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Cargando... Penguin Lost (2002)por Andrij Kurkow
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I try to give this a go, twice. The main character floats through this “adventure”. I couldn’t make it ( ) De retour d’Antarctique, Victor tente de retrouver Micha, son pingouin. Une quête qui le mène de Kiev en Tchétchénie en passant par Moscou. Un deuxième volume moins humoristique que ”Le pingouin”, plus sombre, mais une vision métaphorique et critique de la vie sociale et politique en Ukraine et des violences russes en Tchétchénie et, toujours, ces touches de fantaisie et de bienveillance qui adoucissent la noire réalité. This book was lacking a lot of the humor and charm of Death and the Penguin - mainly it was missing the penguin (Misha). Misha doesn't make an entrance into this sequel until well past the middle. I felt like much of the reading to get to Misha was a complete chore whereas the first novel was 100% joy. A naive city boy in a world of post-soviet gang thugs. A Candide guy and his penguin written in a simple childlike style (Kurkov writes children's books besides his murder mysteries) for an entre into a world of murder, theft, gangsterism, and the Chechen war. Much about crematoria. The search for the penguin gives the young man's life purpose. Not much purpose, though. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Penguin Lost finds Viktor Zolotaryov sneaking back into Kiev under an assumed identity to undertake a dangerous mission: He wants to find Misha, his penguin, whom he fears has fallen into the hands of the criminal mob looking for Viktor himself. Guilt-ridden and determined to do what it takes, Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who employs him in an election-rigging campaign, in return for introducing Viktor to other mobsters who can help him find Misha. And as Viktor goes from mobster to mobster, trying to survive in Kiev's criminal underground, the evidence mounts that Misha may be someplace even worse: the zoo of a Chechen warlord. What ensues is for Viktor both a quest and an odyssey of atonement, and for the reader, a stirring mix of the comic and the tragic, the heartbreaking and the inspiring. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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