The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ; translated with an introduction by Anna Summers.
Record details
- ISBN: 014312997X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780143129974 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xix, 149 pages : illustrations
- Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's War / by Anna Summers -- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel -- Family Circumstances : The Vegers -- The War -- Kuibyshev -- Kuibyshev : Survival Strategies -- How I Was Rescued -- The Durov Theater -- Searching for Food -- Dolls -- Victory Night -- The Officers' Club -- The Courtiers' Language -- The Bolshoi Theater -- Down the Ladder -- Literary Sleep-Ins -- My Performances : Green Sweater -- The Portrait -- The Story of a Little Sailor -- My New Life -- The Hotel Metropol -- Mumsy -- Summer Camp -- Chekhov Street : Grandpa Kolya -- Trying to Fit In -- Children's Home -- I Want to Live! -- Snowdrop -- The Wild Berries -- Gorilla -- Dying Swan -- Sanych -- Foundling. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 22.00 |
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen volumes of prose, including the New York Times bestseller There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighborâs Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, which won a World Fantasy Award and was one of New York magazineâs Ten Best Books of the Year and one of NPRâs Five Best Works of Foreign Fiction; There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sisterâs Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories; and There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family. A singular force in modern Russian fiction, she is also a playwright whose work has been staged by leading theater companies all over the world. In 2002 she received Russiaâs most prestigious prize, The Triumph, for lifetime achievement.