04.08.2013 Views

Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Photo: Anastasia Kazakova<br />

ISbN 978-0-14-312152-7 $15.00 ($16.00 CAN)<br />

Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 176 pp. Rights: E00<br />

A <strong>Penguin</strong> Original Agent: The Wylie Agency<br />

Audio: <strong>Penguin</strong> On sale: 1/29/<strong>2013</strong><br />

SuggeSTeD ORDeR<br />

Also AvAilABle FRoM <strong>Penguin</strong>:<br />

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby<br />

978-0-14-311466-6 $15.00<br />

ClassiC <strong>Penguin</strong><br />

Praise for There Once Lived<br />

a Woman . . . :<br />

“ [An] exquisite<br />

collection.”<br />

—The New York Times<br />

Book Review<br />

“ A revelation.”<br />

—James Wood, The New Yorker<br />

Book Bench’s Best <strong>Books</strong> of<br />

the Year<br />

40 FebRuARy Online Publicity<br />

Love stories, with a twist:<br />

the eagerly awaited follow-up<br />

to the great Russian writer’s<br />

New York Times bestselling<br />

scary fairy tales<br />

There Once Lived<br />

a Girl Who Seduced<br />

Her Sister’s Husband,<br />

and He Hanged Himself<br />

Love Stories<br />

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya<br />

Selected and Translated by Anna Summers<br />

By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist<br />

fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla<br />

Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy,<br />

Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King—is best<br />

known for in Russia. Here are attempts at human connection, both<br />

depraved and sublime, by people in all stages of life: one-night<br />

stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings,<br />

office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships,<br />

and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence, romantic<br />

illusion, and surprising tenderness.<br />

n There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby was<br />

a New York Times bestseller, one of New York magazine’s 10 Best <strong>Books</strong><br />

of the Year, one of NPR’s 5 Best Works of Foreign Fiction, and the winner<br />

of a World Fantasy Award<br />

n Stories from this collection are scheduled to appear in Playboy, the Paris<br />

Review, the Baffler, and Zoetrope<br />

n Publishing for Valentine’s Day<br />

ludMillA PetRushevskAyA has published stories in the New<br />

Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and n + 1. Born in 1938, she is one of Russia’s most<br />

celebrated contemporary authors. She lives in Moscow.<br />

AnnA suMMeRs is the coeditor and co-translator of Ludmilla<br />

Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s<br />

Baby and the literary editor of the Baffler. Born in Moscow, she now lives in<br />

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!