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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
From Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia’s greatest living absurdist and surrealistic writer and New York Times bestseller: traditional family drama meet burlesque social satire, enveloped in a Bollywood soap-opera plot.
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A new collection of adult fairy tales from New York Times-bestselling Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia’s greatest living absurdist and surrealist writer.
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Features love stories about the strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness.
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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…
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With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, the psychological perceptiveness of Dostoevsky, and the bleak absurdities of Beckett, the author blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows…
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Translation of: Malenkaeiia devochka iz Metropoleiia.
A collection of ten plays regarding humanity and concern for people living a desperately circumscribed existence. It includes Cinzano , a drunken binge by three male friends in a derelict…
Vanishings and apparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Petrushevskaya, heir to the spellbinding tradition of Gogol and Poe.
