← Ludmila PetrushevskayaThe Time is Nightby Ludmila PetrushevskayaGrim monologue of a dying mother obsessed with her son's safety and successFind on Amazon↗About the authorLudmila PetrushevskayaRussian author whose dark, tragicomic stories and plays about ordinary Soviet and post-Soviet women were long suppressed. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby is her most celebrated collection in English.More by Ludmila PetrushevskayaThere Once Lived a WomanCollection of surreal stories depicting ordinary Russian lives and desperation→Immortal Love→Cinzano→Vavilonska bashnya→