A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face; and a distraught father brings his daughter back to life by eating human hearts in his dreams.
In these blackly comic tales of revenge, disturbing deaths and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales.
| ISBN: | 9780718192075 |
| Publication date: | 6th January 2011 |
| Author: | Liudmila Petrushevskaia |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 206 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Shorter Reads Fiction in translation Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales |