{"product_id":"three-novellas-about-family","title":"Three Novellas About Family By Petrushevskaya, L","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, and the grinding struggle to survive against the crushing realities of the Soviet system: in \u003ci\u003eAmong Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, a doting mother commits an atrocious act against her beloved son in an attempt to secure his future; \u003ci\u003eThe Time: Night \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the suicide of the great Russian poetess Anna Andreevna with heartbreaking clarity; while in \u003ci\u003eChocolates with Liqueur \u003c\/i\u003ethe struggle for ownership of an apartment between a nurse and a madman turns murderous. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, the psychological perceptiveness of Dostoevsky, and the bleak absurdities of Beckett, Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia''s preeminent contemporary fiction writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Russia''s best living writers ... her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLudmilla Petrushevskaya was born in Moscow in 1938 and is the only indisputable canonical writer currently writing in Russian today. She is  the author of more than fifteen collections of prose, among them this short novel \u003ci\u003eThe Time: Night\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Russian Booker  Prize in 1992, and \u003ci\u003eSvoi Krug\u003c\/i\u003e, a modern classic about 1980s Soviet intelligentsia. Petrushevskaya is equally important as a  playwright: since the 1980s her numerous plays have been staged by the  best Russian theater companies. In 2002, Petrushevskaya received  Russia''s most prestigious prize, The Triumph, for lifetime achievement. She lives in Moscow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57687316660606,"sku":"NW9780141198590","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141198590.jpg?v=1784093258","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/three-novellas-about-family","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}