Kilometer 101
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- Synopsis
- A new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life.The 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, Rock, Paper, Scissors—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.&”
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781681376875
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781681376868
- Publisher:
- New York Review Books
- Date of Addition:
- 10/26/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Maxim Osipov
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Medicine
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Boris Dralyuk
- Translator:
- Nicolas Pasternak Slater
- Translator:
- Alex Fleming
- Translator:
- Boris Dralyuk