There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness.

By turns sly and sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace.

Review

One of Russia's best living writers ... her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next ― The New York Times

Petrushevskaya proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol and Babel is alive and well ― The Daily Beast

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin UK (31 January 2013)

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141198583

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780141198583

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 146 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.2 x 19.8 cm