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“... Who’s Afraid of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya?’ was the title of an essay that appeared in a Russian émigré literary journal in 1984. Petrushevskaya’s stories – short tales of doomed romance and family conflict set within cramped Soviet apartments – were domestic, small-scale, so why weren’t they being published? By 2009, things had shifted ...”

“... Yet the novel she privately thought the best, and I agreed with her, was by a well-known novelist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. It was called The Time: Night, and was about the lower depths of family life, from the long-suffering Russian woman’s standpoint. It did not get the prize, probably because novels of this sort do not seem to be well received in ...”