Another Russian, this time the contemporary cardiologist by day, writer by night Osipov. This is his only work available in English and the prose in translation is magnificent. Everything that is released by the NYRB imprint is fantastic though. All of the stories in this collection stay with you and they feature the kind of sharp observations, biting humour, and felt sense of irony and tragedy that you would expect from a Russian doctor. The successor then of Chekhov and Bulgakov.