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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Title: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

Author: Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Published by: Penguin Non-Classics

Cover Design: Christopher Brand

As Russian novelists, playwrights and writers go, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is as good as it gets for modern fiction. Using her postmodern vantage point, Petruchevskaya references the works of her predecessors’, such as Anton Chekhov, in somewhat paradoxical ways to express the feeble power of the Soviet Union, domestic problems and things supernatural using all manners of devices from straightforward portrayals and cryptic fantasy. Dubbed by Time Magazine as “one of the finest living Russian writers”, Petrushevskaya releases a compilation of short stories, fables and fairy tales, translation entitled There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales.

The avant garde design by Christopher Brand characteristically captures the book’s heavy Russian undertones while remaining somewhat descriptive of the book.