Offended Sensibilities av Alisa Ganieva

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<b>From political fictionalist Alisa Ganieva: a neo-noir portrait of a legal system in which everything is broken and no one is innocent.</b> <p><i>Offended Sensibilities</i> 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. </p><p>With this novel, Ganieva moves beyond the Dagestani setting of her previous award-winning books, published in English by Deep Vellum:<i> The Mountain and the Wall</i> and <i>Bride and Groom</i>. In <i>Offended Sensibilities</i>, 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