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

3.0

The subtitle 'Scary Fairy Tales' doesn't really seem to do this collection justice. Petrushevskaya continues on in the grand tradition of Gogol with what my non-English major ass calls Russian Magical Realism but probably has its own fancy name. Anyhow, the stories and vignettes are full of dingy Soviet imagery liberally salted with absurd allegory and spooky echoes of children's stories. I like it.