One of the finest living Russian writers - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is Russia's greatest grotesque and surrealist writer, world Fantasy Award winner, whose works have been published in more than 30 countries!
Petrushevskaya was awarded the Russian Big Book Award(one of Russia's largest literary Award) - Lifetime Achievement, in recognition of her lifetime achievements and contributions to literary creation in 2018!

"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

"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

"Petrushevskaya is a strikingly original author ".— The Guardian

The Little Girl from The Metropol
(Original Russian name:МАЛЕНЬКАЯ ДЕВОЧКА ИЗ «МЕТРОПОЛЯ»）

Categories: Novel / Historical Fiction   Language: Russian   Pages: 133 pages

【Feature】
★Nominated for the National Bestseller Prize 2007 National Critics Circle Award Finalist!
★Rights sold: US, France, Lithuania, Romania, Germany, Italy, China, Arabic，Brazil and so on!
★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.
★The book is an epistolary novel about love and death, pain and happiness, light and darkness, war and peace. The author brings each character in the novel to life by giving the reader an immersive reading experience that lingers long time even after the book is closed.
★Complete English translation available.

【Description】
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.……  Read More

Kidnapped. The History of Crimes
（Original Russian name: Нас украли. История преступлений）

Categories: Novel / Ethics   Language: Russian   Pages: 320 pages

【Feature】
★This book is one of the few novels by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya! A family ethics and crime novel with a hilarious social irony.
★Rights sold Norway!The United States, The United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Denmark, France and other multinational copyright are in hot negotiations!
★Over 20,000 copies have been sold in Russia!

【Description】
Set in the 1980s through 1990s, the novel focuses on the life of Alina, 21y.o., a promising language student who has to drop her academic career because of an unplanned pregnancy. Alina decides to give up a baby for adoption after birth and is set to leave the hospital alone. In the hospital she meets another girl, Masha, a graduate from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Affairs, who is happily looking forward to the childbirth and speaks up of her life plans with the husband, Sergei, (he, too, is a future diplomat) in a republic in South Asia. Their family has been chosen for work in the Soviet trade mission there – a fantastic career for young specialists. Masha dies in childbirth, and Alina who delivers her baby at the same time, on an impulse exchanges bracelets with newborns' names between the babies – she wishes a brighter future for her own son, and believes that the widowed father will still take the baby along abroad, away from the dull Soviet reality...……  Read More

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill her Neighbors' Baby
（Original Russian name: Два царства）

Categories:Contemporary Short Stories / Anthologies   Language: Russian    Pages: 225 pages

【Feature】
★ #34 in NY Times bestsellers list, #15 in Amazon.com in translated fiction!
★ TRights sold to: USA,UK,Germany,France,Spain,Brazil,Norway,Denmark,Dutch,China,Turkey,India and so on!
★ One of Mikhail Shishkin's representative works, regarded as one of the literary classics of Russia and even the world.
★ This book won The World Fantasy Award 2010!
★ A master of the short story genre, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya dazzles the imagination with explorations of death, love, space, time and identity.
★Complete English translation available.

【Description】
This Book contains a number of short stories of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
In her magical-realistic stories that at once recall Kafka, Borges and Gogol, Petrushevskaya pictures the deprived and desperate - orphans, childless women, lonely elderly people - in search of love and happiness, in their struggle for life. The fantastic (magical transformations, resurrection of the dead, living dolls and magical objects) merges here into reality, authentically captured by the author. Petrushevskaya's signature prose, harrowing and painfully sensitive, seems to strip off your skin, making your naked nerves shudder at the touch of this fictional reality that is much too close for comfort.
Here is a childless woman who grows a girl in a cabbage, or a girl attempts suicide and finds herself in a horrid, unlit apartment building chased by monstrous lorry drivers, escaping a split second before it is too late to come back to life. Set against a bleak background, Petrushevskaya's "fairy-tales for grownups", as the author defines the genre, are amazingly dynamic and ingenious.  Read More

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband,
and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
（Original Russian name: Рассказы о любви）

Categories: Short Stories / Anthologies Women's Fiction   Language: Russian   Pages: 194 pages

【Feature】
★ Rights sold to: USA, UK, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Arabic, Israel, Romania and so on!
★ By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya – who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King – is best known for in Russia.
★ Complete English translation available.

【Description】
This book is the selection of realistic short stories of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
These "love stories, with a twist " follow the New York Times bestselling collection of her mystical short stories There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby. The publisher's blurb says, "here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, by people across the life span: one-night stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships, and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence, romantic illusion, and surprising tenderness.
With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer".   Read More