Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family (Penguin...
- ISBN 13:
- 9780141198590
- author:
- Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 12.9 x 1.2 x 19.8 cm
- Genre:
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
Three Novellas about Family by Li︠u︡dmila Petrushevskai︠a︡ In these haunting novellas, the boundaries between love and cruelty, humanity and despair, are constantly tested. A mother's desperate act to secure her son's future, a poetess's tragic struggle with mortality, and a nurse's desperate fight for ownership of a home all converge in a world where survival is a daily struggle. Petrushevskaya's writing is a masterful blend of the macabre and the sublime, with a keen psychological insight that cuts to the heart of the human condition. Her stories inhabit a world that is both familiar and strange, where the ordinary and the extraordinary coexist in a state of uneasy tension. A testament to Petrushevskaya's skill as a writer, these novellas are a powerful exploration of the complexities of family life, and the ways in which our relationships with others can both sustain and destroy us.
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