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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and ...Show more
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, and the grinding struggle to survive against the crushing realities of the Soviet system: in Among Friends, a doting mother commits an atrocious act against her beloved son in an attempt to secure his future; The Time: Night examines the ...Show more
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.
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