Reading as part of the 1st international literature festival graal-müritz
The Russian writer and cardiologist Maxim Ossipow reads from Kilometer 101. In his stories and essays, he paints an impressive picture of Russian provincial life - characterized by stagnation, dreariness and an often absurd everyday life, but also by surprising moments of hope and warmth. Ossipow tells of emigrants, of anti-Semitism, of everyday life in an authoritarian state and of people's will to survive. "I love Maxim Ossipow's prose. His stories are like a precise, merciless diagnosis of Russian life" Svetlana Alexievich
