There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family

From the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, the masterly novellas that established her as one of the greatest living Russian writers--including a new translation of the modern classic The Time Is Night

"Love them,­ they'll torture you; don't love them, ­they'll leave you anyway."

After her work was suppressed for many years, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya won wide recognition for capturing the experiences of everyday Russians with profound pathos and mordant wit. Among her most famous and controversial works, these three novellas--The Time Is Night, Chocolates with Liqueur (inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"), and Among Friends--are modern classics that breathe new life into Tolstoy's famous dictum, "All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Together they confirm the genius of an author with a gift for turning adversity into art.

Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/28/2014
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780143121664

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2014
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 78
Shelf Awareness 11/07/2014
Publishers Weekly 11/10/2014
New York Times Book Review 11/30/2014 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2014 pg. 80
New Yorker (The) 12/15/2014 pg. 73

About the Author
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen volumes of prose, including the New York Times bestseller There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, which won a World Fantasy Award and was one of New York magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year and one of NPR's Five Best Works of Foreign Fiction; There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories; 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.