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There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister S (2000)

by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Was putting together a list of Russian authors to read for my June Classic and realized I have never read a female Russian author. So, off to the internet I went. What I found, and what was available to me in English at the library were several short story collections. This was the first I found. And it was awesome. Very short stories, most under 10 pages, and all were about the intersection of joy and misery in Soviet Russia.
review 2: I went back and forth on what to rate this book. There are stories I enjoyed and stories I didn't. I don't think anything in this book made me question Petrushevskaya's talents as a writer. I think what eventually knocked it from a three stars to two (Like vs. Ok) is that I read this book not too long after finishing Simon Rich'... mores 'The Last Girlfriend On Earth and other love stories' which I enjoyed to bits and Nathan Englander's 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank' in which there wasn't a wasted word and each story was a firecracker. It is probably unfair to compare these three books as the worlds in which they were written and into which they were intially recieved are vastly different. I would like to give Petrushevskaya another shot. Till next time. less

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