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 TALESIt starts as follows: “Masterworks of economy and acuity, these brief, trenchant tales by Russian
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