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Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, and the grinding struggle to survive against the crushing realities of the Soviet system: in Among Friends, a doting mother commits an atrocious act against her beloved son in an attempt to secure his future; The Time: Night examines the suicide of the great Russian poetess Anna Andreevna with heartbreaking clarity; while in Chocolates with Liqueur the struggle for ownership of an apartment between a nurse and a madman turns murderous. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, the psychological perceptiveness of Dostoevsky, and the bleak absurdities of Beckett, Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia''s preeminent contemporary fiction writer.

One of Russia''s best living writers ... her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next - The New York Times

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in Moscow

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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 *

There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 11/6/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780141198590, 978-0141198590
      ISBN10: 0141198591
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, and the grinding struggle to survive against the crushing realities of the Soviet system: in Among Friends, a doting mother commits an atrocious act against her beloved son in an attempt to secure his future; The Time: Night examines the suicide of the great Russian poetess Anna Andreevna with heartbreaking clarity; while in Chocolates with Liqueur the struggle for ownership of an apartment between a nurse and a madman turns murderous. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, the psychological perceptiveness of Dostoevsky, and the bleak absurdities of Beckett, Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia''s preeminent contemporary fiction writer.

      One of Russia''s best living writers ... her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next - The New York Times

      Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in Moscow

      Trade Review
      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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