There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby

Informationen zum Autor Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Klappentext 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 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. Zusammenfassung A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face.

Product details

• Authors: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Petrushevskaya Ludmilla
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780718192075
• ISBN: 978-0-7181-9207-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fiction in translation, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales