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The New Adventures of Helen - by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Paperback)

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  • A new collection of adult fairy tales from New York Times-bestselling Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia's greatest living absurdist and surrealist writer.
  • About the Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives.
  • 140 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



A new collection of adult fairy tales from New York Times-bestselling Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia's greatest living absurdist and surrealist writer.



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A new collection of adult fairy tales from New York Times-bestselling Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia's greatest living absurdist and surrealist writer.



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"We are likely to hear a lot more of this woman. Some October, perhaps, from the Nobel Prize committee." --The Nation

"One of Russia's best living writers . . . Her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next." --The New York Times Book Review

"Petrushevskaya, now seventy-six and finally attracting the readership she deserves, [has] a ringleader's calm mastery of the absurd." --The New Yorker

"Petrushevskaya writes instant classics." --The Daily Beast

"Petrushevskaya is the Tolstoy of the communal kitchen. . . . She is not, like Tolstoy, writing of war, or, like Dostoevsky, writing of criminals on the street, or, like poet Anna Akhmatova or novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, noting the extreme suffering of those sent to the camps. Rather, she is bearing witness to the fight to survive the everyday. . . . [She is] dazzlingly talented and deeply empathetic." --Slate

"This celebrated Russian author is so disquieting that long after Solzhenitsyn had been published in the Soviet Union, her fiction was banned--even though nothing about it screams 'political' or 'dissident' or anything else. It just screams." --Elle

"Her suspenseful writing calls to mind the creepiness of Poe and the psychological acuity (and sly irony) of Chekhov." --More

"Petrushevskaya's fiction [offers] a glimpse of what it means to be a human being, living sometimes in bitter misery, sometimes in unexpected grace." --Jenny Offill, The New York Times Book Review

"The fact that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya is Russia's premier writer of fiction today proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well." --Taylor Antrim, The Daily Beast

"What distinguishes the author is her compression of language, her use of detail and her powerful visual sense." --Time Out New York

"A master of the Russian short story." --Olga Grushin, author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov

"There is no other writer who can blend the absurd and the real in such a scary, amazing and wonderful way." --Lara Vapnyar, author of There Are Jews in My House

"One of the greatest writers in Russia today and a vital force in contemporary world literature." --Ken Kalfus, author of A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

"A master of the short story form, a kindred spirit to writers like Angela Carter and Yumiko Kurahashi." --Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, Magic for Beginners, and Stranger Things Happen

"In her best work Petrushevskaya steers a sure course between neutrally recording the degraded life of the Soviet-era urban underclass and ratcheting up the squalor of that life for the mere pleasure of it. She does so by the steadiness of her moral compass and the gaiety of her prose." --J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature




About the Author



Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen collections of prose, including the New York Times-bestseller There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales (2009), 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, and There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories (2013). 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.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 140
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Format: Paperback
Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Language: English
Street Date: November 16, 2021
TCIN: 94455205
UPC: 9781646051038
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-6873
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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