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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 sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace.

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One of Russia's best living writers ... her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next * The New York Times *
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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sisters

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 31/01/2013
      ISBN13: 9780141198583, 978-0141198583
      ISBN10: 0141198583
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      Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace.

      Trade Review
      One of Russia's best living writers ... her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next * The New York Times *
      Petrushevskaya proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol and Babel is alive and well * The Daily Beast *

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