There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself

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Copyright © Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, 2013 Translation and introduction copyright © Anna Summers, 2013 All rights reserved

“Milgrom” was translated by Anna Summers and Keith Gessen. It first appeared on the Words Without Borders website.

“Give Her to Me” first appeared in The Baffler; “The Goddess Parka” in Playboy; “Hallelujah, Family” in Zoetrope; and “The Wild Berries” in The Paris Review.

The stories in this collection were published in Russian in Neva, Octyabr, Aurora, Znamya, Novyi mir, and Literaturnaya gazeta.

These selections are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Petrushevskaia, Liudmila. [Short stories. English. Selections. 2013] There once lived a girl who seduced her sister’s husband, and he hanged himself : love stories / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ; selected and translated with an introduction by Anna Summers. pages ; cm

ISBN 978-1-101-60298-0

1. Petrushevskaia, Liudmila—Translations into English. I. Summers, Anna, translator. II. Title.

PG3485.E724A2 2013 891.73'44—dc23 2012029559

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