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Número de … Idioma: Editorial Fecha de pu

224 páginas Inglés Penguin 29

Books Septiemb
2009

Descripción
Product Description
New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the World Fantasy Award
One of New York magazine’s 10 Best Books of the Year
One of NPR’s 5 Best Works of Foreign Fiction

The celebrated scary fairy tales of Russia’s preeminent

contemporary fiction writer—the author of the
prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist
Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel

Vanishings 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.

From Publishers Weekly

Masterworks of economy and acuity, these brief,
trenchant tales by Russian author and playwright
Petrushevskaya, selected from her wide-ranging but
little translated oeuvre over the past 30 years, offer an
enticement to English readers to seek out more of her
writing. The tales explore the inexplicable workings of
fate, the supernatural, grief and madness, and range
from adroit, straightforward narratives to bleak fantasy.
Frequently on display are the decrepit values of the
Soviet system, as in The New Family Robinson, where a
family tries to outsmart everyone by relocating to a
ramshackle cabin in the country. Domestic problems get
powerful and tender treatment; in My Love, a long-
suffering wife and mother triumphs over her husband's
desire for another woman. Darker material dominates
the last section of the book, with tortuous stories, heavy
symbolism and outright weirdness leading to strange
and unexpected places. Petrushevskaya's bold, no-
nonsense portrayals find fresh, arresting expression in
this excellent translation. (Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of
Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review
"A revelation—it is like reading late-Tolstoy fables, with
all of the master's directness and brutal authority. . . . A
wonderful book." —James Wood, The New
Yorker’s Book Bench's Best Books of the Year

"Arresting . . . Incantatory . . . Timeless and troubling . . .

This exquisite collection [is] vital, eerie and freighted
with the moral messages that attend all cautionary
tales. . . . [Petrushevskaya] is hailed as one of Russia's
best living writers. This slim volume shows why. Again
and again, in surprisingly few words, her witchy magic
foments an unsettling brew of conscience and
consequences." —The New York Times Book Review

"The book could catch fire in your hands and you'd still
try to be turning pages. It's giving me nightmares, in the
nicest way possible." —Jessica Crispin, Bookslut

"Thrillingly strange . . . Brilliantly disturbing . . . The fact

that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya is Russia's premier writer
of fiction today proves that the literary tradition that
produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and
well." —Taylor Antrim, The Daily Beast

"What distinguishes the author is her compression of

language, her use of detail and her powerful visual
sense. . . . Petrushevskaya is certainly a writer of
particular gifts." —Time Out New York

"Fantastic . . . Spooky, compelling . . . Reading [it] was

similar to finding a long-lost friend. . . . I would love to
summarize every single story and explain its brilliance,
but I'd rather you go out, buy this book, and read it for
yourself. It's simply one of the best books I've read in
quite some time." —Jessica Ferri, Bookslut

"Macabre, fantastical doses of reality turned inside out

by Soviet oppression, a surreal concoction of a society of
'New Robinson Crusoes' shadow-chasing themselves to
the far corners of oblivion, deliciously and wildly told."
—Philip Schulz, The New Yorker’s Book Bench

"Awesomely creepy." —New York

"The most attention-grabbing title of the

year...Undeniably seductive...Her suspenseful writing
calls to mind the creepiness of Poe and the
psychological acuity (and sly irony) of Chekhov. And
when she goes full-on gruesome . . . well, Stephen King
should watch his back." —More

"As bleak as Beckett, as astringent as witch hazel, as

poetic as your finest private passing moments. . . There
Once Lives a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's
Baby gave me nightmares. This celebrated Russian
author is so disquieting that long after Solzhenitsyn had
been published in the Soviet Union, her fiction was
banned—even though nothing about it screams
'political' or 'dissident' or anything else. It just screams. .
. . If there's any justice, this humble paperback will be
greeted as the pinnacle of modern literature that it is
—but as Petrushevskaya would be the first to say, to
hope for justice is to invite mockery. Better just to keep
your head down and write . . . like this." —Elle

"Mysteries, nightmares, magic: these stories are the

fever dreams of a nation stricken by public disorder and
personal anomie. They establish Ludmilla
Petrushevskaya as one of the greatest writers in Russia
today and a vital force in contemporary world
literature." —Ken Kalfus, author of A Disorder Peculiar
to the Country

"Thrilling, delicious, and shuddersome. Lucky readers

(I am one) reading Petrushevskaya for the first time will
quickly recognize a master of the short story form, a
kindred spirit to writers like Angela Carter and Yumiko
Kurahashi. This is a feast of a book." —Kelly Link,
author of Magic for Beginners, Stranger Things
Happen, and Get in Trouble

"There is no other writer who can blend the absurd and

the real in such a scary, amazing and wonderful way."
—Lara Vapnyar, author of There Are Jews in My
House and Memoirs of a Muse

"Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's deceptively simple tales

unfold in a shadowy borderland between reality and
nightmare, between life and death, where saints and
witches walk alongside present-day murderers and
drunks, where wintry woods and murky basements
become matter-of-fact settings for the end of the world
and Christ's second coming. This land is dark, haunted,
often terrifying; but every ten or fifteen pages one is
suddenly blinded by a bright flash of light—some small
act of humanity, some shy movement of soul, a
heartbreaking moment of redemption or revelation—
and the memory of that miraculous light lingers for
days afterward. This is an extraordinary, powerful
collection by a master of the Russian short story."
—Olga Grushin, author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov

About the Author

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow,
where she still lives. She is the author of more than
fifteen volumes of prose, including There Once Lived a
Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged
Himself: Love Stories; There Once Lived a Mother Who
Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three
Novellas About Family; and a prizewinning memoir, The
Girl from the Metropol Hotel. A singular force in modern
Russian fiction, she is also a playwright whose work has
been staged by leading theater companies all over the
world. In 2002 she received Russia’s most prestigious
prize, The Triumph, for lifetime achievement.

Información de producto

ASIN 0143114662

Editorial Penguin Books; Original edición

(29 Septiembre 2009)

Idioma: Inglés

Tapa blanda 224 páginas

ISBN-10 9780143114666

ISBN-13 978-0143114666

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Dimensiones 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.71 pulgadas

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Dark...very dark.
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I grew up in a rural house full of dismembered antique
dolls and taxidermied animals (seriously). This book
felt like going home for a visit. It's dark, and bleak, and
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I like her concepts a great deal

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Interesting stories. I like her concepts a great deal, just
keep in mind these are TRANSLATED so I do think they
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Irkutsk ain't got nothing on Petrushevskaya

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The stories, excellent, the translation vibrant and
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Stories from One of Russia's #1 Writers

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This collection won the "World Fantasy Award" in
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Somehow I ran across this title while looking for new
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Poor translation?
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I can't help but feel the translation isn't doing these
stories justice. Clunky to read, diction that actually
proves wrong, the English versions of these story seem
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Very interesting collection of stories...

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Overall, I enjoyed the book very much, although a few
of the stories just seemed to end, with no real
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Quirky and Disturbing Stories

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I can't say I "love" this book. It's well written. It's dark.
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