sentences:  "There Once Lived a Woman who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby," a short story collection, was published in the U.S. by Penguin Books in October 2009 and became a "New York Times Book Review" bestseller in December of that year.In 2010, it won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.The first major translation of her work by an American publisher, the stories often contain mystical or allegorical elements which are used to illuminate bleak Soviet and post-Soviet living conditions.