When Victor and Andrey Pavlovich went to "The Dump" in chapter 21 of Penguin Lost, Andrey told Zhora, "Remembered her who you were talking to in the sauna? Time - like money for your board, my money, $50 per diem - is shirt. No sense in wasting it. Infringing Snail's Law is bad enough. Refusing ...

Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov is set primarily in post-Soviet Ukraine but periodically refers to characters (such as Andrey Pavlovich) using dollars. For example, on chapter 21: "Remembered her who you were talking to in the sauna? Time - like money for your board, my money, $50 per diem - is sh...

In chapter 22 and 23 of Penguin Lost, Viktor and Andrey Pavlovich made a big show of delivering some artificial limbs to the Cafe Afghan to promote the latter's campaign. What, exactly, was the Cafe Afghan? Is that a place where veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan frequented? I do vaguely r...