There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
New York Times BestsellerWinner 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143114666 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143114662 |
| Title | There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby |
| Author | Ludmilla Petrushevskaya |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2009-09-29 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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