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

ISBN: 0143114662

Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla

Condition: New

New York Times BestsellerWinner of the World Fantasy AwardOne of New York magazines 10 Best Books of the YearOne of NPRs 5 Best Works of Foreign FictionThe celebrated scary fairy tales of Russias preeminent contemporary fiction writer-the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol HotelVanishings 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.