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There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby
scary fairy tales
by Li͡udmila Petrushevskai͡a
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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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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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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
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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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