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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes there's those meals that you just wolf down.  The eating only takes minutes, but the digestion lasts hours.  That is the analogy I would draw with this book.  A slim book at just a tad over 200 pages, these dark stories will be read quickly, but you will find yourself deciphering meaning a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79912092">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At the family Thanksgiving feast, I was taken to task for the creepy nature of my reading material.  <br/><br/>But don't let any warm and fuzzy holiday feelings stop you from enjoying this book.  And if you go to the land of the dead, don't eat the food.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't attest to what her influences were, but I found myself recalling O. Henry, Poe, Baba Yaga stories, Gogol, Bulgakov and others while reading Petrushevskaya's newly translated and published short story collection. A few stories here are brilliant (especially the titular one) and all are intere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79358242">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sparcely written ghost stories with a single theme of beyond the grave redemption. The four short stories the ALLEGORIES and five that make up the FAIREY TALES sections are really marvellous in their horrible passages into happiness. Well thought out and masterfully contained, economical and poignan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74388226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a strange and interesting collection of short-short stories.  Many are dreamlike, most are tense, all employ the magical, twisted logic of the best true fairy tales.  This book literally fell on me in the store today, and I read the whole thing before I left.  I especially enjoyed the story ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75067707">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this in one gulp and am still reeling - her stories are like sharp, brilliant little stones that lodge in your gullet. They are so strange and timeless that it almost seems impossible that one person made them up - they feel like folktales, dragged up from the belly of the earth and passe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79425473">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A modern-day reminder of the usefulness of fairy tales, especially when reality seems stranger than fiction. And for anyone who lived and is still living through history in Eastern Europe, I am sure fables are the only way to accurately recount what you have seen.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Small, dark stories with terrible, fairy tale beauty.  For anyone who likes Kelly Link and unusual storytelling.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's refreshing to read Russian literature that doesn't use banal conversation as the focal point of the story, or in this case, stories. The stories themselves are just okay on a superficial level, until you start thinking about them a bit more thoroughly. Each one has so much subtext that even the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70066228">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Fountain House&quot; and &quot;The Black Coat&quot; were my favorites.]]></body>
    
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