{"product_id":"9780143121664-there-once-lived-a-mother-who-loved-her-children-until-they-moved-back-in","title":"There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree Novellas About Family\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Love them,­ they’ll torture you; don’t love them, ­they’ll leave you anyway.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57676739412342,"sku":"9780143121664","price":15.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31461663.jpg?v=1776177057","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780143121664-there-once-lived-a-mother-who-loved-her-children-until-they-moved-back-in","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}