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  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141971148
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

Through The Wall




Introducing the new Mini Modern Classics. The short story is we're going to change the way you read.

'There once lived a woman who was so fat, she couldn't fit in a taxi, and when going into the subway she took up the whole width of the escalator'

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has been acclaimed as one of Russia's greatest living writers. These five dreamlike and blackly comic stories, two of which are here in English for the first time, tell of lost children, midnight forests, strange transformations, cruel curses, grief and resilience, in the darkest of modern fairy tales.

This book contains Through the Wall and Anna and Maria.

  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141971148
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

About the author

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen collections of prose, including the New York Times bestseller There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales (2009), which won a World Fantasy Award and was one of New York magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year and one of NPR's Five Best Works of Foreign Fiction, and There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories (2013). 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.

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