Alexandra Fleming, Anne Marie Jackson, Boris Dralyuk

Rock, Paper, Scissors, And Other Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story, recenly profiled in The New Yorker 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9781681373324
• ISBN-10: 1681373327
• Artikelnr.: 53459731

Autorenporträt

Maxim Osipov, preface by Svetlana Alexievich, edited by Boris Dralyuk, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming, and Anne Marie Jackson

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents:
 
Preface: The Cry of the Domestic Fowl
 
Moscow-Petrozavodsk
 
The Gypsy
 
Rock, Paper, Scissors
 
Renaissance Man
 
In the Wave of the Sea
 
Polish Friend
 
The Mill
 
After Eternity
 
On the Banks of the Spree
 
Good People
 
Objects in Mirror