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The New Adventures of Helen
Magical Tales
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The New Adventures of Helen
A new collection of adult fairy tales from New York Times-bestselling Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia's greatest living absurdist and surrealist writer.
Serial rights targeting The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Guernica, and others Print and digital publicity targeting NPR, The Atlantic, Public Books, The Rumpus, Bookforum, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The White Review, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Asymptote, Music & Literature, Little Star, A Public Space, and others Promotion at or events pitched for Texas Book Festival, LitQuake, Brooklyn Book Festival, WordPlay, National Book Festival, Winter Institute Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request Promotion on the publisher’s website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); and publisher’s e-newsletter
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One of Russia's best living writers . . . Her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next. - The New York Times
At first glance, the stories in The New Adventures of Helen seem simple, even child-like, but a deep reading reveals satire and darkness manifested through classic fairy tale tropes characteristically upended by Petrushevskaya. These 'adult fairy tales' ask deep questions about gender, love, history, memory, and the future, taking place in times between history and the now.
These stories, quirky yet inspired by a confident hopefulness, will inspire and provoke English-speaking readers across the globe.
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The New Adventures of Helen by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has received acclaim for its profound and engaging storytelling. Critics praise Petrushevskaya as an exceptional talent, likening her to literary greats and noting her ability to blend the absurd with the real. Her writing is described as suspenseful and deeply empathetic, offering rich depictions of everyday struggles and the human condition, while maintaining a unique compression of language and vivid detail.
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ISBN: 9781646051038
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 December 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Translated by Jane Bugaeva
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 127.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 140
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About the Author
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen collections of prose, including the New York Times bestseller There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales (2009), which won a World Fantasy Award and was one of New York Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year and one of NPR's Five Best Works of Foreign Fiction, and There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories (2013). A singular force in modern Russian fiction, she is also a playwright whose work has been staged by leading theatre companies all over the world. In 2002 she received Russia's most prestigious prize, the Triumph, for lifetime achievement.
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