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

5.0

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These are fascinating modern folk tales and allegories from the foremost person of letters in Russia today. She was suppressed until the Soviet system crumbled, when she began to be more widely read and published, and now, finally, an English translation. Darkly gorgeous tales.