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The literary event of Halloween: a book of otherworldly power from Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writerVanishings and apparitions, 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.
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby, Ljudmila Stefanovna Petruševskaja
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- Released
- 2009
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- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0143114662
- ISBN13
- 9780143114666
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Children's Books, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fairy Tales & Stories, Russia, Russian Literature, Scary Stories, World Fantasy Award (Prize)
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Жила-была женщина, которая хотела убить соседского ребёнка (Žila-byla ženščina, katoraja chatela ubit‘ sosedskovo rebjon
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- 3.65 out of 5
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- The literary event of Halloween: a book of otherworldly power from Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writerVanishings and apparitions, 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.