There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby
Subtitle: scary fairy tales
By: by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ; selected and translated with an introduction by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers.
Contributors: Gessen, Keith.; Summers, Anna.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: rus
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780143114666
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila -- Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories.
Description: The stories in this collection were published in Russian in Novy Mir, Ogonyok, Literaturnaya Gazeta and other periodicals.
"Father" and "Two Kindgdoms" first appeared in n+1; "The Arm", "Incident at Sokolniki" and "A Mother's Farewell" in Vice; and "The Fountain House" in The New Yorker.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: vii; label: Songs of the Eastern Slavs
title: 1; label: The Arm
title: 3; label: Revenge
title: 7; label: Incident at Sokolniki
title: 12; label: A Mother's Farewell
title: 15; label: Allegories
title: 21; label: Hygiene
title: 23; label: A New Soul
title: 36; label: The New Robinson Crusoes: A Chronicle of the End of the Twentieth Century
title: 44; label: The Miracle
title: 61; label: Requiems
title: 81; label: The God Poseidon
title: 83; label: My love
title: 87; label: The Fountain House
title: 97; label: The Shadow Life
title: 108; label: Two Kingdoms
title: 115; label: There's Someone in the House
title: 124; label: Fairy Tales
title: 139; label: The Father
title: 141; label: The Cabbage-Patch Mother
title: 149; label: Marilena's Secret
title: 157; label: The Old Monk's Testament
title: 177; label: The Black Coat
title: 194