A review by mikelchartier
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

4.0

It's refreshing to read Russian literature that doesn't use banal conversation as the focal point of the story, or in this case, stories. The stories themselves are just okay on a superficial level, until you start thinking about them a bit more thoroughly. Each one has so much subtext that even the symbolically illiterate would have a hard time dismissing. Highly recommended reading, and a very quick read at that. Apparently Petrushevkaya is a huge hit in Russia, and I can only hope more of her work is shipped my way.