Kidnapped : A Story in Crimes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila.

Contributor:

Marian, Schwartz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

False personation--Fiction.

Infants switched at birth--Fiction.

Genre:

Satirical literature.

Novels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Kidnapped

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"From Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, New York Times bestseller and Russia's greatest living absurdist and surrealist writer: traditional family drama meets burlesque social satire, enveloped in a Bollywood soap-opera plot. Set in the 1980s and '90s, Kidnapped focuses on the life of Alina, a promising language student who must drop her academic career because of an unplanned pregnancy. Alina decides to give up her baby for adoption after birth and plans to leave the hospital alone. While she's there, she meets Masha, who is looking forward to childbirth and a future with her husband in a republic in South Asia. When Masha dies in childbirth, Alina impulsively switches the babies' name bracelets in an attempt to send her newborn son away from the dull reality of Soviet life. But then the unthinkable happens: Masha's husband asks Alina to falsify her identity and come with him in the foreign service. What ensues is a drama worthy of a soap opera, full of medical deceit, identity scams, and faked deaths. Through it all, Alina survives in unthinkable circumstances, sure above all that she will learn to be a good mother"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

1. The Twenty-First Century: The Boys' Departure

2. The Twentieth Century: What the Historians Will Write

3. The Twenty-First Century: Next Stop, Montegasco

4. The Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Kolya's Story

5. Kustodiev

6. The Story of Masha and Sergei Sertsov

7. The Story of Tamara and Valera

8. The Story of Masha's Birth

9. Masha's Love

10. Alina's Story

11. The Continuing Story of Sergei Sertsov

12. Alina's Story, Continued

13. The Story of Kirkoryan

14. Alina: Continued

15. Kirkoryan: Conversation with Her Husband

16. Alina: Death of an Infant

17. Maternity Hospital Viewings

18. Alina: Remote Matchmaking

19. Sertsov's Marriage Proposal

20. The Story of Tamara Gennadievna

21. Kirkoryan's Delivery Prep

22. Tamara Gennadievna Goes on the Warpath

23. The Story of Kirkoryan's Coat

24. Tamara Gennadievna and the Janitor

25. Sergei Collects Alina and the Baby

26. Sergei and Lariska

27. Sergei and Alina: Family life

28. Tamara Gennadievna and Zokha

29. Alina and Faina

30. Alina the Thief

31. Tamara Gennadievna and Sergei

32. Baby Seryozha-Vasya

33. The Kidnapping, Continued

34. At the Kirkoryans' after the Birth

35. Meeting Mishulis

36. The Stroller

37. Tamara Gennadievna's Baby

38. An Outing for Keeps

39. Alina: Three Years Abroad

40. Russia Welcomes Alina

41. A Man Called Shapochkin

42. Lana Goes on the Warpath

43. Lana Awaits Word from Graf

44. The Twentieth Century: Lana and Graf

45. Graf in Moscow

46. The Apartment Next Door

47. Alina's New Family

48. Threats

49. Life after Life

50. The Committee of Our Women

51. A Terrible Call

52. Nikolai: Guests in Montegasco

53. Kustodiev Eavesdrops

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-64605-230-7

OCLC:

1373348256