Rock, Paper, Scissors by Maxim Osipov sociology Published to great acclaim in

Published to great acclaim in the USSR in 1985 and now available in English for the first time

a haunting echo of the works of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

son of the Soviet leader at the heart of some of the Cold Wars tensest exchanges

takes us with him into this alien world

urbane 30-year-old Scot

Rock, Paper, Scissors by Maxim Osipov sociology Published to great acclaim inMaxim 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.