There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Paperback Published on: 06/01/2011; Language: English, Russian (Original language of a translated text)
Price: £9.99
Synopsis
A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face; and a distraught father brings his daughter back to life by eating human hearts in his dreams.
In these blackly comic tales of revenge, disturbing deaths and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780718192075
- Number of pages: 224
- Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 12 mm
- Weight: 170g
- Languages: English, Russian (Original language of a translated text)
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Magical, melancholic
What a bizarre writer! Petrushevskaya has devised an interesting aesthetic in these brief, harrowing pieces; her descriptions and characterisations are bea... READ MORE
Life and death and everything in-between.
Somewhat inconsistent in quality, and with an annoying mix of proper English muddled up with American spelling and vernacular, the translations of these sh... READ MORE
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