Muerte Con Pingüino / Death and the Penguin

Viktor es un escritor arruinado: est sin dinero, lo ha dejado su novia, tiene fr o.

Imaginen si se siente solo que decide adoptar a un ping ino. No sabe que este nuevo compa ero de piso, Misha, tambi n est deprimido: suelta suspiros melanc licos cuando chapotea en la ba era de agua helada y se encierra en la habitaci n como un adolescente. Ahora Viktor no solo est triste, sino que debe consolar a su amigo. Y adem s alimentarlo.

Todo se complica cuando un gran peri dico le encarga escribir esquelas de personajes p blicos que a n est n vivos. Parece una tarea f cil. Pero no lo es: los protagonistas de sus necrol gicas empiezan a fallecer en extra as circunstancias poco despu s de que escriba sobre ellos. Misha y Viktor se ven atrapados en una trama absurda y violenta.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Victor is depressed: his lover has dumped him, his short stories are too short, and the light has gone off in his dingy apartment.

His only companion is Misha, the penguin he rescued from Kiev's Zoo, when they couldn't feed the animals anymore. Misha is the silent witness to Victor's despair and joins in on his celebration--fish and vodka--when his luck seems to turn and is commissioned to write obituaries. The weird thing is, the editor wants him to select subjects who are still alive, the movers and the shakers of the new, post-Communist society.