Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1994
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Books in Order: 10 titles

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  • Kidnapped

    From Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, New York Times  bestselling author and Russia’s greatest living absurdist, comes an elaborate family drama, social satire, and burlesque of twists, coincidences, and hijinks. Kidnapped is ...

  • The New Adventures of Helen

    “One of Russia’s best living writers . . . Her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next.” —The New York TimesAt first glance, the stories in The New Adventures of Helen seems simple, even child-like, but a de...

  • Through the Wall

  • There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In

    The masterly novellas that established Ludmilla Petrushevskaya 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, ­theyâ€...

  • There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself

    Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer’s New York Times bestselling scary fairy tales By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stor...

  • There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged: Love Stories

    Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer's New York Times bestselling scary fairy tales By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the storie...

  • There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby

    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; ...

  • There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

    New York Times Bestseller Winner of the World Fantasy Award One of New York magazine’s 10 Best Books of the Year One of NPR’s 5 Best Works of Foreign FictionThe celebrated scary fairy tales of Russia’s preeminent contemporary fic...

  • IMMORTAL LOVE

    A complete collection of short fiction by the award-winning author of The Time: Night captures the lives of women as they search for love, living space, and money, and cope with their children, family strife, and the problems of aging in Sovi...



  • The Time: Night

    Capturing the complexities of contemporary Russian life, the scribbled notes of Anna Andrianovna, written in the solitary hours of the night, chronicle her struggle to provide food, money, space, time, and love for the diverse members of her family....

Award-Winning Books by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
2010 World Fantasy Award -- Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has published 10 books.

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kidnapped, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, The Time: Night, was published in September 1994.

No. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya does not write books in series.
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