num_pages: 171
description: Love stories with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer's New York Times bestselling scary fairy tales.By turns sly and sweet burlesque and heartbreaking these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskayawho has been compared to Chekhov Tolstoy Beckett Poe Angela Carter and even Stephen Kingis best known for in Russia. Here are attempts at human connection both depraved and sublime by people in all stages of life: one-night stands in communal apartments poignantly awkward couplings office trysts schoolgirl crushes elopements tentative courtships and rampant infidelity shot through with lurid violence romantic illusion and surprising tenderness.A murky fate --The fall --The goddess parka --Like Penelope --Ali-baba --Two deities --Father and mother --The impulse --Hallelujah family! --Give her to me --Milgrom --Clarissa's story --Tamara's baby --Young berries --The adventures of Vera --Eros's way --A happy ending
language: English
title: There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
publisher: Penguin Books