There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary
Darkly compelling, completely unforgettable modern fairy tales in their first ever UK publication
A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face; and a distraught father brings his daughter back to life by eating human hearts in his dreams.
In these blackly comic tales of revenge, disturbing deaths and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales.
Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Format: Paperback, 224 pages, 130mm x 197mm, 170 g
Published: 2011, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Darkly compelling, completely unforgettable modern fairy tales in their first ever UK publication
A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face; and a distraught father brings his daughter back to life by eating human hearts in his dreams.
In these blackly comic tales of revenge, disturbing deaths and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales.
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary