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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
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‘Thrillingly strange … Brilliantly disturbing …

proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well’

The Daily Beast

In these blackly comic stories of revenge, disturbing deaths, midnight forests, magic and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales.

‘One of Russia’s best living writers

… her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next’

The New York Times

‘As astringent as witch hazel, as poetic as your finest private passing moments … If there’s any justice, this humble paperback will be greeted as the pinnacle of modern literature that it is’
Elle

Selected and translated by KEITH GESSEN

and ANNA SUMMERS

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 March 2011
Pages
224
ISBN
9780718192075

‘Thrillingly strange … Brilliantly disturbing …

proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well’

The Daily Beast

In these blackly comic stories of revenge, disturbing deaths, midnight forests, magic and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales.

‘One of Russia’s best living writers

… her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next’

The New York Times

‘As astringent as witch hazel, as poetic as your finest private passing moments … If there’s any justice, this humble paperback will be greeted as the pinnacle of modern literature that it is’
Elle

Selected and translated by KEITH GESSEN

and ANNA SUMMERS

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 March 2011
Pages
224
ISBN
9780718192075

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