In Adelie Land, Mumble seeks the counsel of Lovelace the Guru, a crazy-feathered Rockhopper penguin who will answer any of life's questions for the price of a pebble. Together with Lovelace and ...

In its turn, The Penguin Lessons is rescued from the banality of this formula by three things. The first is its setting: Argentina in 1976 just as the newly installed military junta launches the ...