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by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Author), Keith Gessen (Translator), Keith Gessen (Introduction by)
New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the World Fantasy Award
One of New York magazine's 10 Best Books of the Year
One of NPR's 5 Best Works of Foreign Fiction
Author Biography
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen volumes of prose, including There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories; There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family; and a prizewinning memoir, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel. A singular force in modern Russian fiction, she is also a playwright whose work has been staged by leading theater companies all over the world. In 2002 she received Russia's most prestigious prize, The Triumph, for lifetime achievement.
