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KILOMETER 101 - MAXIM OSIPOV KARTONIERT (TB)

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.”

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