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

by Ludmila Petrushevskaya

Keith Gessen (Introduction) and Anna Summers (Introduction)

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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.
  • ISBN10 0143114662
  • ISBN13 9780143114666
  • Publish Date 29 September 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint Penguin USA