Petrushevskai︠︡a
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The diary of a Russian woman poet describing life in her gritty Moscow apartment. It is a tiny place which she shares with her senile mother, her son who is a small time crook and just out of jail, and with her daughter who keeps getting pregnant and doesn't look after her children. Offsetting the depressing surroundings, lots of black humor.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 ... 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'"--
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