# Offended Sensibilities

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- Book: [Offended Sensibilities](https://www.bookquiver.com/adrian-prieto/offended-sensibilities) ([Offended Sensibilities.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/adrian-prieto/offended-sensibilities.md))
- Authors: [Adrián Prieto](https://www.bookquiver.com/adrian-prieto)
- Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
- ISBN: 978-16-4605-223-3
- Pages: 252
- Published: 2022-12-22
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.