{"product_id":"there-once-lived-a-mother-who-loved-her-children-until-they-moved-back-in-three-novellas-about-family-9780143121664","title":"There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, \u003ci\u003eThe Girl from the Metropol Hotel, \u003c\/i\u003et\u003c\/b\u003ehe masterly novellas that established her as one of the greatest living Russian writers--including a new translation of the modern classic \u003ci\u003eThe Time Is Night \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Love them,­ they'll torture you; don't love them, ­they'll leave you anyway.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eThe Time Is Night, Chocolates with Liqueur \u003c\/i\u003e(inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's \"The Cask of Amontillado\"), and \u003ci\u003eAmong Friends\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10215043\"\u003eLudmilla Petrushevskaya\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143121664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143121669\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC016000\"\u003eHumorous | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLudmilla Petrushevskaya\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen volumes of prose, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThere Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, \u003c\/i\u003e which won a World Fantasy Award and was one of \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year and one of NPR's Five Best Works of Foreign Fiction; \u003ci\u003eThere Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories\u003c\/i\u003e; and a prizewinning memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Girl from the Metropol Hotel.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42669358678253,"sku":"9780143121664","price":23.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_cf1e14b9-d8f8-4b09-a498-58dc67b7b383.jpg?v=1649474752","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/there-once-lived-a-mother-who-loved-her-children-until-they-moved-back-in-three-novellas-about-family-9780143121664","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}