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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin Modern Classics)
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
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Paperback. A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face; and a distraught father brings his daughter back to life by eating human hearts in his dreams.
In these blackly comic tales of revenge, disturbing deaths and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780718192075
SKU
V9780718192075
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About Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in Moscow in 1938 and is the only indisputable canonical writer currently writing in Russian today. She is the author of more than fifteen collections of prose, among them the short novel The Time: Night, shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize in 1992, and Svoi Krug, a modern classic about the 1980's ... Read more
Reviews for There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin Modern Classics)
'Gave me nightmares ... These stories work the boundary states of consciousness like a tongue works an aching tooth'
Elle
'A revelation - like reading late-Tolstoy fables set in an alternative reality'
New Yorker
this short and rather extraordinary book of "Scary Fairy Tales" [...] succeed - in many cases quite ... Read more
Elle
'A revelation - like reading late-Tolstoy fables set in an alternative reality'
New Yorker
this short and rather extraordinary book of "Scary Fairy Tales" [...] succeed - in many cases quite ... Read more