One of the most interesting and perceptive of the many positive reviews of this first English-language selection of stories by the outstanding Maxim Osipov:
http://www.themillbrookindependent.com/content/maxim-osipov-new-face-russian-literature/
“Above all, Osipov has a deft and adroit sense of humor, from the droll to exuberant laugh, which makes his stories such a pleasure to read. There is something of a Matryoshka doll in his work that permits perceptions and jokes to be both small and large. One might say there’s an element of new-dimensional chess in his stories where the reader is delightfully checkmated, yet he strives for transparency where ‘Everything should be understandable to the reader.’
“I’ve read him: Osipov himself is a new dimension; his sense of time breathes the bric-a-brac of postmodern angst. As with Chekhov, his stories are populated from a large sociological sampling of society, yet he remains more of an urban than rural writer. While he’s rooted in Russia, there is also a broad global, cultural sensibility.”
All the best, Robert
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