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There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby

scary fairy tales

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The stories in this collection were published in Russian in Novy Mir, Ogonyok, Literaturnaya Gazeta and other periodicals.
"Father" and "Two Kindgdoms" first appeared in n+1; "The Arm", "Incident at Sokolniki" and "A Mother's Farewell" in Vice; and "The Fountain House" in The New Yorker.

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
224

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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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Cover of: There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby
There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby: scary fairy tales
2009, Penguin Books
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Table of Contents

Introduction. vii
Songs of the Eastern Slavs. 1
The Arm. 3
Revenge. 7
Incident at Sokolniki. 12
A Mother's Farewell. 15
Allegories. 21
Hygiene. 23
A New Soul. 36
The New Robinson Crusoes: A Chronicle of the End of the Twentieth Century. 44
The Miracle. 61
Requiems. 81
The God Poseidon. 83
My love. 87
The Fountain House. 97
The Shadow Life. 108
Two Kingdoms. 115
There's Someone in the House. 124
Fairy Tales. 139
The Father. 141
The Cabbage-Patch Mother. 149
Marilena's Secret. 157
The Old Monk's Testament. 177
The Black Coat. 194

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2009
Translated From
Russian

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.73 '44 (ddc22)
Library of Congress
PG3485.E724 A613 2009, PG3485.E724 A2 2009, PG3485.E724A613 2009

Contributors

Cover Design
Christopher Brand
Cover Art and Illustrations
Sam Weber
Author Photographer
Annastasia Kazakova
Translator
Keith Gessen
Translator
Anna Summers

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiii, 206 p. ;
Number of pages
224
Dimensions
19.7 x 13 x 1.5 centimeters
Weight
181 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24022567M
Internet Archive
thereoncelivedwo0000petr
ISBN 13
9780143114666
LCCN
2009029419
OCLC/WorldCat
318411330
Library Thing
8608170

Work Description

The literary event of Halloween: a book of otherworldly power from Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writerVanishings 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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During the war, a colonel received a letter from his wife.
Page 3, added by Alex Voytek.

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