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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

2009224 pagesPenguin US

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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, a Russian master in the tradition of Gogol and Poe, presents a collection of unsettling fairy tales. These stories are filled with vanishings, apparitions, and supernatural interventions that blend the miraculous with the macabre. Leavened by a mischievous gallows humor, these bewitching tales offer a unique and dark perspective on the human condition.

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