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

Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская

Original title: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

Translated by Keith Gessen earliest edition we have, 2009 Penguin Books, 2009 paperback 224 pages

The literary event of Halloween: a book of otherworldly power from Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writerVanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, heir to the spellbinding tradition of Gogol and Poe. Blending the miraculous with the macabre, and leavened by a mischievous gallo...

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Keith Gessen 1 printing we hold · 2009 · Penguin Books

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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby ebook · 2009 · Penguin USA, Inc. · 9781101144350
There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby paperback · 2009 · Penguin Books · 224 pages · 9780143114666

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