From the Life of Caramel

That’s his nickname—Fish-Mallet. What kind of fish is he? Just his eyes are set wide apart. Otherwise, he’s a good cook and an honest man—though an idiot, as he was later described. He works for an oligarch named Panibbratets, and his life doesn’t differ much from anything: from pot to pan, from pan to refrigerator… But one day Fish is ordered to go into the boss’s office—where almost nobody is allowed (even the office cleaning is done by a Japanese robot Imamura). There Panibbratets gives him a thick envelope and orders him to open it at midnight and without witnesses. The poor cook does exactly that. Afterward, fate drags him through the terrible potholes of destiny—from one test to another…

A fun, light, sometimes mischievous, sometimes kind book with heroes you simply can’t help but fall in love with.