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The Little Girl from The Metropol

  • Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
  • Categories:Historical Fiction
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★This is not a typical fiction memoir. Through the prism of the story of her family, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya draws a compelling portrait of the era of communist Russia.
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  With brilliant precision and telling details, Petrushevskaya draws a gallery of portraits of the Muscovite intelligentsia as they struggle to survive in the new - poverty-stricken and ignorant - country. The author recalls her beautiful grandmother, whom the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was in love with; her great-aunt, lover of head-of-state Mikhail Kalinin; and her grandfather, a celebrated linguist, one of the fathers of the Moscow linguistic circle. These characters are set next to violent and ruthless neighbors who attack Ludmilla’s grandmother with an axe when she wants to use the bathroom in their communal flat, and beat Ludmilla if she is found rummaging in their slop-pail for the remains of food. The 8-year-old girl grows up in the company of fatherless boys, homeless beggars and war invalids that crowded the streets of Saratov (then Kuibyshev), where her family lived as evacuees during the war.

  As the story of a small girl in the hungry post-war years unfolds, the fate of the enormous country appears before the reader - a country where the magical is intertwined with the mundane, beautiful and refined neighbor with terrible ones, and despair with hope. A family forest grows out of Petrushevskaya’s memoir, one in which each tree is at once “a child, a parent, and a personality”.

Author

  Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in Moscow in 1938. Petrushevskaya studied journalism at Moscow State University, and began writing prose in the mid ‘60s. Her fi rst work was published in 1972, only to be followed by almost ten years of offi cially enforced silence, when the publication of her plays and prose was forbidden. At that time Petrushevskaya earned her living by working as a radio and television journalist and contributing to newspapers and literary Magazines. When her somber and disturbing absurdist plays were fi nally staged, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya became widely recognized as one of Russia’s fi nest dramatists.

  A collection of short stories and monologues, Immortal Love, was published in 1988 and met with stunning success among readers and critics alike. In 1992 Petrushevskaya’s novel The Time is Night was short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize; it was translated into more than 30 languages and included in college courses as one of the most important novels of the 20th century. Since then, Petrushevskaya has published over 30 books of prose. Today, award-winning plays by Petrushevskaya are produced around the world, while her prose pieces have been published in more than 30 countries. Ludmila Petrushevskaya is considered to be the only indisputably canonical writer currently at work in Russia today.

  In 1991, Petrushevskaya was awarded the Pushkin Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Germany. She has also received prizes from the leading literary journals in Russia. Petrushevskaya’s novels The Time is Night and Number One… were short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize. In 2002, Petrushevskaya received Russia’s most prestigious prize, The Triumph, for lifetime achievement. Petrushevskaya’s play BIFEM was awarded the first prize at the New Drama Festival in 2003. In 2003 Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was awarded the State Prize of Russian Federation. The World Fantasy Award was received in 2010 for the short stories collection published by Penguin in USA.

“One of the finest living Russian writers… Her signature black humor and matter-of- fact prose result in an insightful and sympathetic portrait of a family in crisis”. – Publishers Weekly

“Petrushevskaya is a strikingly original author”.– The Guardian

“Told in an intimate, loose, over-the-backfence style, this is an alternately funny and desperate book – a welcome introduction
to a strong talent”. – Kirkus Review

“Thrillingly strange…Brilliantly disturbing… proves that the literary tradition that produces Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well”. – Th e Daily Beast

“The writing is beautifully controlled and the spirit large… She deserves a wide readership”. – TLS

“A wonderfully talented and significant writer”. – John Bayley

"The auras of Samuel Beckett and the baleful Albanian magic realist Ismail Kadare blend in Petrushevskaya’s work”. - Booklist, starred review

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