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21%OFFLudmilla Petrushevskaya - There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister´s Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories - 9780141198583 - V9780141198583
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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister´s Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

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Description for There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister´s Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories Paperback. Features love stories about the strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace.

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141198583
SKU
V9780141198583
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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 Girl Who Seduced Her Sister´s Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
One of Russia's best living writers ... her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next
The New York Times
Petrushevskaya proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol and Babel is alive and well
The Daily Beast

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