The next morning his most prominent one, a corrupt politician with Mafia ties and a mistress, is dead. After a job well done Misha non penguin and Victor get drunk on vodka and Victor confesses that he is frustrated as an obituary writer: his subjects refuse to die. Pleased with Victor’s work the editor sends him his friend, also called Misha, and from then onwards known as Misha non penguin, who commissions Victor to write an obituary about one of his shady associates. The weird thing is that the editor wants him to select subjects who are still alive, the movers and the shakers of the new, post Communist society. 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. Discover the darkly funny follow-up to cult classic Death and the Penguin. Misha joins in his celebration fish and vodka when Victor’s luck seems to turn: He is commissioned to write obituaries under the pen name ‘A Group of Friends’. 'Rich, authentic and entertaining' New Statesman. Misha is the silent witness to Victor’s despair. His only companion is Misha, the penguin he rescued from Kiev’s Zoo, when it couldn’t feed the animals anymore. Victor is depressed: his lover has dumped him, his short stories are too short and the light has gone off in his dingy apartment. A devastating satire of the worlds of mafia and media, of politics and penguins in the tradition of the master of 20th century satire, Mikhail Bulgakov.
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