Rock, Paper, Scissors Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock, Paper, Scissors

And Other Stories

Maxim Osipov and Others
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Publisher Description

The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story.

Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov’s fiction presents a nuanced, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia—its tragedies, frustrations, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration. The twelve stories in this volume depict doctors, actors, screenwriters, teachers, entrepreneurs, local political bosses, and common criminals whose paths intersect in unpredictable yet entirely natural ways: in sickrooms, classrooms, administrative offices and on trains and in planes. Their encounters lead to disasters, major and minor epiphanies, and—on occasion—the promise of redemption.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2019
April 9
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
3.9
MB
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