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In the girl from the metropol hotel, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivationof wandering the streets like a young edith piaf, singing for alms, and living by her wits like oliver twist, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbours. Her shockinglytitled there once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbors baby. The fierce fairy tales of russian author ludmilla petrushevskaya.
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