There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged HimselfBy: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Love stories, with a twist, by Russias preeminent contemporary fiction writerthe author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskayawho has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen Kingis