{"product_id":"kilometer-101-paperback","title":"Kilometer 101 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaxim Osipov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBoris Dralyuk\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNicolas Pasternak Slater\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside Moscow, far enough to have served, under Soviet rule, as a place where former political prisoners and other \"undesirables\" could legally settle. Lying between the center of power and the provinces, between the modern urban capital and the countryside, Tarusa is the perfect place from which to observe a Russia that, in Maxim Osipov's words, \"changes a lot [in the course of a decade], but in two centuries--not at all.\" The stories and essays in this volume--a follow-up to his debut in English, \u003ci\u003eRock, Paper, Scissors\u003c\/i\u003e--tackle major questions of modern life in and beyond Russia with Osipov's trademark blend of daring and subtlety. Deceit, political pressure, ethnic discrimination, the urge to emigrate, and the fear of abandoning one's home, as well as myriad generational debts and conflicts, are as complexly woven through these pieces as they are through the lives of Osipov's fellow Russians and through our own. What binds the prose in this volume is not only a set of concerns, however, but also Osipov's penetrating insights and fearless realism. \"Dreams fall away, one after another,\" he writes in the opening essay, \"some because they come true, but most because they prove pointless.\" Yet, as he reminds us in the final essay, when viewed from ground level, \"life tends not towards depletion, towards zero, but, on the contrary, towards repletion, fullness.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaxim Osipov\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1963) is a Russian writer and cardiologist. In the early 1990s he was a research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, before returning to Moscow, where he continued to practice medicine and also founded a publishing house that specialized in medical, musical, and theological texts. In 2005, while working at a local hospital in Tarusa, a small town ninety miles from Moscow, Osipov established a charitable foundation to ensure the hospital's survival. Since 2007, he has published short stories, novellas, essays, and plays, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. He has published six collections of prose, and his plays have been staged all across Russia. Osipov's writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lived in Tarusa up until February 2022. He lives in Amsterdam. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoris Dralyuk\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, a translator, and the Editor-in-Chief of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a translator of Maxim Osipov's \u003ci\u003eRock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e Lev Ozerov's \u003ci\u003ePortraits Without Frames\u003c\/i\u003e, and a co-translator of Pushkin's \u003ci\u003ePeter the Great's African\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by NYRB Classics.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697371549759,"sku":"9781681376868","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/af8c62e43c441c58de08b62427955847.webp?v=1765009205","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/kilometer-101-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}