There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
20 March 2013
Summary
Dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist from the author of There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby.
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 flawe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198583 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141198583 |
| Author: | Ludmilla Petrushevskaya |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 20 March 2013 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
One of Russia’s best living writers … her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next
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 *
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 1980s Soviet intelligentsia.
Petrushevskaya is equally important as a playwright: since the 1980s her numerous plays have been staged by the best Russian theater companies. In 2002, Petrushevskaya received Russia’s most prestigious prize, The Triumph, for lifetime achievement. She lives in Moscow.
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