Offended Sensibilities

Offended Sensibilities is a neo-noir novel by Alisa Ganieva that explores a legal system in which everything is broken and no one is innocent. It follows a series of sudden deaths among officials of a provincial Russian town and is set against the backdrop of a blasphemy law banning forms of expression that offend the sensibilities of religious believers. The novel addresses nationalism, Orthodox religiosity, sexuality, and political corruption and is suffused with a light touch and sense of humor. It can be read as an allegory for the current political, social, religious, and cultural climate in Russia today.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 22 December 2022
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

From political fictionalist Alisa Ganieva comes 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.

Weight: 346g
Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781646052233