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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (2009, Paperback)

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 2009-09-29
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0143114662
ISBN-13: 9780143114666
Product ID: EPID72721976
Description: Most of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's books were banned while her homeland was known as the Soviet Union, and though her domestic literary status quickly elevated following the collapse of communism, she has yet to acquire a significant Amer...
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Synopsis
Most of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's books were banned while her homeland was known as the Soviet Union, and though her domestic literary status quickly elevated following the collapse of communism, she has yet to acquire a significant American audience. That should change with the publication of this anthology of sensational short stories, which demonstrate her recipe for mingling the banal and the bizarre. The opening tale, "The Arm," sets the tone for the collection, as a Russian colonel disobeys his wife's order not to open her coffin once she is dead, and then watches helplessly as she enacts revenge from beyond the grave. In "Revenge," a jealous woman plots to kill her neighbor's new born child, since she is certain that the baby will ruin their friendship. Petrushevskaya evokes the Brothers Grimm, Greek and Roman myths, and countrymen like Dostoevsky and Bulgakov with these caustic tales which twist like veins extending from the dark heart of Russia.

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Publication Date:2009-09-29

Size
Length:206 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
A volume of otherworldly tales by an award-winning Russian author blends fantastical and macabre themes in a treasury that incorporates supernatural and darkly whimsical storylines. Original.

Industry Reviews
"There is, it's true, plenty of despair here. And what happiness the characters do achieve is never of the ebullient variety. But for the reader, anyway, there's also great satisfaction in watching the characters get by--escape or 'outsmart' whatever's after them, or just throw everything away and think, 'That's life.' "
(10/12/2009)

"The auras of Samuel Beckett and the baleful Albanian magic realist Ismail Kildare blend in Petrushevskeya's work." (starred review)
(10/15/2009)

"[An] exquisite collection....[Petrushevskaya] is hailed as one of Russia's best living writers. This slim volume shows why....Short, highly concentrated, inventive and disturbing, her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next, a place where vengeance and grace may be achieved only in dreams."
(11/22/2009)

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