Charlotte Hobson

The deathly malaise that’s crippling Russia

The cardiologist Maxim Osipov describes his frustration at seeing patients whose lives are so meaningless they scarcely bother with treatment

Maxim Osipov
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    Maxim Osipov, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming and Nicholas Pasternak Slater

    NYRB Classics, pp. 256, £14

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