There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill her Neighbor's Baby: Fairy Tales by Petrushevskaya
Publisher's Weekly published an excellent review on Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's new selection of short stories in Keith Gessen's and Anna Summers' translation (Penguin, US), THERE ONCE LIVED A WOMAN WHO TRIED TO KILL HER NEIGHBOR'S BABY: FAIRY TALES.
It starts as follows: “Masterworks of economy and acuity, these brief, trenchant tales by Russian author and playwright Petrushevskaya, selected from her wide-ranging but little translated oeuvre over the past 30 years, offer an enticement to English readers to seek out more of her writing…"
It starts as follows: “Masterworks of economy and acuity, these brief, trenchant tales by Russian author and playwright Petrushevskaya, selected from her wide-ranging but little translated oeuvre over the past 30 years, offer an enticement to English readers to seek out more of her writing…"