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

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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy TalesNew 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 09/01/2009
ISBN: 9780143114666
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.12w x 0.59d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/13/2009 pg. 34
Library Journal 09/15/2009 pg. 55
Booklist 10/15/2009 pg. 32
New York Times Book Review 11/22/2009 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 11/29/2009 pg. 22
Asimov's Science Fiction 07/01/2010 pg. 110
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