There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
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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…
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This collection is often compared to Angela Carter, and the subject matter is superficially similar (adopting European folklore and fairytales to address contemporary issues), yet the style is quite different— Petrushevskaya's writing is sparse rather than florid and her tone bleakly emotive as opposed to ironic.
Settings merge the dark forests and woodcutter's huts of folklore with rundown high-rises and derelict train stations to illustrate the severe conditions the author was then witnessing in the Soviet Union, with magic and fantastical scenarios acting as a contrast to the poverty and suffering.
However, these fairytales are not as grim as they…
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