There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Book Details
Author(s)
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN / ASIN
0143114662
ISBN-13
9780143114666
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#220,573
Category
Fiction
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the World Fantasy Award
One of New York Magazine s 10 Best Books of the Year
One of NPR s 5 Best Works of Foreign Fiction
The celebrated scary fairy tales of Russia s preeminent contemporary fiction writer the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel
Vanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, heir to the spellbinding tradition of Gogol and Poe. Blending the miraculous with the macabre, and leavened by a mischievous gallows humor, these bewitching tales are like nothing being written in Russia or anywhere else in the world today.
Winner of the World Fantasy Award
One of New York Magazine s 10 Best Books of the Year
One of NPR s 5 Best Works of Foreign Fiction
The celebrated scary fairy tales of Russia s preeminent contemporary fiction writer the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel
Vanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, heir to the spellbinding tradition of Gogol and Poe. Blending the miraculous with the macabre, and leavened by a mischievous gallows humor, these bewitching tales are like nothing being written in Russia or anywhere else in the world today.
