Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright and songwriter (born 1938), known for dark, fairy-tale-like stories and plays exploring family life, loneliness and marginal characters; author of collections such as "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby."
Books
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1. Bila Jednom Jedna žena Koja Je želela Da Ubije Dete Iz Komšiluka
A collection of stark, fable-like stories that fuse grotesque domestic realism with dark humor, focusing on women and children pushed to extremes by poverty, superstition and social collapse; characters are at once tender and monstrous, their small acts of survival and cruelty rendered in spare, haunting prose that shifts between bleak allegory and fleeting compassion, producing an intimate portrait of resilience, fear and the ambiguous moral choices made in desperate circumstances.
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2. Время ночь
A haunting collection of short prose that plunges into the underside of urban life, where nighttime becomes a landscape of fear, longing and small cruelties; through spare, fable-tinged narratives the book follows mostly women and children trapped by poverty, domestic violence, alcohol and bureaucracy, yet still capable of strange tenderness and grim humor, blending realism and the grotesque to reveal how ordinary survival turns into a ritual of endurance and imaginative escape.