From political fictionalist Alisa Ganieva: a neo-noir portrait of a
legal system in which everything is broken and no one is innocent.
Offended Sensibilities chronicles a series of sudden deaths that
occur among officials of a provincial Russian town. The events
follow a notorious blasphemy law banning forms of expression that
offend the sensibilities of religious believers - a law passed
after Pussy Riot's infamous 2013 church-side protest that resulted
in their arrest. With this novel, Ganieva moves beyond the
Dagestani setting of her previous award-winning books, published in
English by Deep Vellum: The Mountain and the Wall and Bride and
Groom. In Offended Sensibilities, Ganieva seeks to address
nationalism, Orthodox religiosity, sexuality, and political
corruption. Suffused with a light touch and at times rollicking
sense of humor, this timely, entertaining and thought-provoking
novel can be read as an allegory for the current political, social,
religious, and cultural climate in Russia today.
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