Stories about love in every writer’s work are like pearls in a crown. For Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, these pearls are different every time—shining, huge ones; very small ones like river grains; lovingly crafted, set in frames; nuggets you find, and that’s happiness for every pearl hunter. But there are also wild pearls that have taken their own path: let’s not forget that every pearl is a wound in the soul of a living oyster—sealed up, wrapped, in many layers of tears, specially rounded so it can live on for a poor mollusk…
Contents:
The Park Goddess
Powerless Hands
Anik’s Warning
Seven Hours
Tamara’s Child
A Fit of Impulse
Sa and So
Lullaby of a Native Bird
Wolfgangovna and Sergey Ivanovich
How Much Women Know
From the Mountain
NagaYna
Like a Flower at Dawn
Hymn to the Family
Layla and Mara
On the Road of the God Eros
Give Me Her
Elegy
The Labyrinth
Waterloo Bridge
Like Penelope
Immortal Love
The Story of Clarissa
Serezha
Sleep and Awakening
I Love You