Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. Penguin, $15 trade paper (171p) ISBN 978-0-14-312152-7
Full of meaningful, finely crafted detail, this story collection set in Russia manages to tackle the grimmest of situations head-on with compassion and a great deal of warmth. In “Two Deities” a one-night stand between a woman in her mid-30s and a...
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, trans. from the Russian by Anna Summers. Penguin, $16 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-312166-4
This third collection of Petrushevskaya's short fiction to be translated into English brings together three stories about family by a Russian writer whose work was long suppressed, primarily for its daring to express such controversial topics as...
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Author, Keith Gessen, Translator, Anna Summers, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers. Penguin $15 (206p) ISBN 978-0-14-311466-6
Masterworks of economy and acuity, these brief, trenchant tales by Russian author and playwright Petrushevskaya, selected from her wide-ranging but little translated oeuvre over the past 30 years, offer an enticement to English readers to seek out...
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, trans. from the Russian by Anna Summers. Penguin, $16 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-312997-4
In this memoir, acclaimed novelist Petrushevskaya (There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby) recounts her impoverished Moscow childhood with a blend of dark humor and clipped, piercing realism. She was born in 1938 to a family...
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, trans. from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. Deep Vellum, $16.95 trade paper (268p) ISBN 978-1-64605-204-2
Petrushevskaya (The New Adventures of Helen) offers a campy story involving babies switched at birth in 1980s Moscow. Shortly after pregnant 21-year-old Alina Rechkina is abandoned by her husband and left penniless, she goes into labor. Her roommate
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, trans. from the Russian by Jane Bugaeva. Deep Vellum, $16.95 trade paper (356p) ISBN 978-1-64605-103-8
The tales in Petrushevskaya’s whimsical and allegorical latest (after the memoir The Girl from the Metropol Hotel) turns on themes of love, virtue, and suffering. The title story follows a reborn, “dumb as a doornail” Helen of Troy in her quest to...
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