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Penguin's Melancholy
General Fiction企鹅的忧郁
(ukraine) Andrei Kurkov
The zoo is short of money and cannot afford to keep the penguins, so it is open to the public for adoption. On the day of adoption, Victor took Misha the penguin home. Misha not only had congenital heart disease, but also suffered from depression. Victor dreams of becoming a writer, but has never been able to write a finished work. In order to support himself and Misha, he accepted a strange job, writing obituaries of political and business celebrities for newspapers. The pay was well-paid, but strangely, he needed to write it before his death. Although Victor can never become a real writer... Life seems to be getting better gradually. Gradually, he discovered that this job was not simple at all, and even very dangerous. As obituaries that seemed to predict death were published one after another, the short-term happiness turned into confusion and panic, and Victor found that he had also become the protagonist of the obituaries. Where is the killer? Who is the mastermind? The shadow of death looms step by step. In order to protect Misha and Sonia, he needs to make some compromises and sacrifices.
The zoo is short of money and cannot afford to keep the penguins, so it is open to the public for adoption. On the day of adoption, Victor took Misha the penguin home. Misha not only had congenital heart disease, but also suffered from depression. Victor dreams of becoming a writer, but has never been able to write a finished work. In order to support himself and Misha, he accepted a strange job, writing obituaries of political and business celebrities for newspapers. The pay was well-paid, but strangely, he needed to write it before his death. Although Victor can never become a real writer... Life seems to be getting better gradually. Gradually, he discovered that this job was not simple at all, and even very dangerous. As obituaries that seemed to predict death were published one after another, the short-term happiness turned into confusion and panic, and Victor found that he had also become the protagonist of the obituaries. Where is the killer? Who is the mastermind? The shadow of death looms step by step. In order to protect Misha and Sonia, he needs to make some compromises and sacrifices.