{"product_id":"there-once-lived-a-mother-ludmilla-petrushevskaya-9780143121664","title":"There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, \u003ci\u003eThe Girl from the Metropol Hotel, \u003c\/i\u003et\u003c\/b\u003ehe masterly novellas that established her as one of the greatest living Russian writers--including a new translation of the modern classic \u003ci\u003eThe Time Is Night \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Love them,­ they'll torture you; don't love them, ­they'll leave you anyway.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After her work was suppressed for many years, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya won wide recognition for capturing the experiences of everyday Russians with profound pathos and mordant wit. Among her most famous and controversial works, these three novellas--\u003ci\u003eThe Time Is Night, Chocolates with Liqueur \u003c\/i\u003e(inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's \"The Cask of Amontillado\"), and \u003ci\u003eAmong Friends\u003c\/i\u003e--are modern classics that breathe new life into Tolstoy's famous dictum, \"All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.\" Together they confirm the genius of an author with a gift for turning adversity into art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ludmilla Petrushevskaya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143121669\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143121664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/30\/2014 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/07\/2014 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2014 pg. 73","brand":"Ludmilla Petrushevskaya","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994812842239,"sku":"9780143121664","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35051f26-bb32-4cde-b1f4-e0973447f53c.jpg?v=1683332325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/there-once-lived-a-mother-ludmilla-petrushevskaya-9780143121664","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}