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Kidnapped
The Story of Crimes
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From Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia's greatest living absurdist and surrealistic writer and New York Times bestseller: traditional family drama meets burlesque social satire, enveloped in a Bollywood soap-opera plot.
Set in the 1980s and '90s, Kidnapped focuses on the life of Alina, a promising language student who must drop her academic career because of an unplanned pregnancy. Alina decides to give up her baby for adoption after birth and is set to leave the hospital alone. In the hospital, she meets another girl, Masha, who is happily looking forward to childbirth and speaks of her life plans with her husband in a republic in South Asia.
When Masha dies in childbirth, Alina impulsively exchanges the babies' name bracelets in an attempt to send her newborn son away from the dull reality of Soviet life. But then the unthinkable happens: Masha's husband asks Alina to falsify her identity and come with him into the foreign service. Full of twists and turns, Kidnapped results in a drama worthy of a daytime soap opera: medical deceit, identity scams, and falsified death abound.
Despite it all, Alina survives against all odds in unthinkable circumstances, sure above all that she will learn to be a good mother.
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Kidnapped by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya is praised for its wit and talent, showcasing a unique blend of humour and psychological depth. Reviewers highlight the novel's epic scope, where all characters are treated with equal significance, reflecting Petrushevskaya's characteristic portrayal of strong maternal figures. The book is noted for its engaging narrative that balances absurdity with deep empathy, suggesting the author's profound connection to her characters.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781646052042
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 June 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Translated by Marian Schwartz
- Translated by Marian Schwartz
- Translated by Marian Schwartz
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 268
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 theater companies all over the world. In 2002 she received Russia's most prestigious prize, the Triumph, for lifetime achievement.
Marian Schwartz is a prizewinning translator of Russian literature. She is the principal translator of the works of Nina Berberova, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Goncharov, and others.
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