Li︠u︡dmila Petrushevskai︠a︡

Li͡udmila Petrushevskai͡a

Presents a collection of short stories about apparitions, nightmares, twists of fate, and mysterious ailments.

Scary Fairy Tales

There Once Lived a Woman who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

fatru tamzil

First of all, happy #WITMonth! 

Yes, this is my entry for Women In Translation Month and this year I want to read more stories in translation that I haven't read before. Eastern European writers are definitely not something I read enough. 

Stories on this volume are dark, and plays a lot on realities. Surreal, but also tragic, and morbidly funny sometimes.

alina s

“The New Robinson Crusoes” and “The Black Clay” are the best stories in here (for me)

Andrea Guadalupe

Rowan Myers

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

'Thrillingly strange . . . Brilliantly disturbing . . . proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well' The Daily Beast In these blackly comic stories of revenge, disturbing deaths, midnight forests, magic and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales. 'One of Russia's best living writers . . . her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next' The New York Times 'As astringent as witch hazel, as poetic as your finest private passing moments . . . If there's any justice, this humble paperback will be greeted as the pinnacle of modern literature that it is' Elle Selected and translated by KEITH GESSEN and ANNA SUMMERS

There Once Lived a Woman who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby Scary Fairy Tales

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