Offended Sensibilities

di Alisa Ganieva (Autore)

Carol Apollonio (Traduttore)

Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022

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.

• Autore: Alisa Ganieva
• Traduttore: Carol Apollonio
• Editore: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 252 p.
• Dimensioni: 215 x 139 mm
• EAN: 9781646052233

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