There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back in: Three Novellas about Family

From the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, the masterly novellas that established her as one of the greatest living Russian writers--including a new translation of the modern classic The Time Is Night

"Love them,­ they'll torture you; don't love them, ­they'll leave you anyway."

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--The Time Is Night, Chocolates with Liqueur (inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"), and Among Friends--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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/28/2014
ISBN: 9780143121664
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2014
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 78
Shelf Awareness 11/07/2014
Publishers Weekly 11/10/2014
New York Times Book Review 11/30/2014 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2014 pg. 80
New Yorker (The) 12/15/2014 pg. 73