Alisa Ganieva

Aide slegka za tridtsat, ona razvedena, syn zhivet s byvshim muzhem, a sama ona jutitsja v malenkoj kvartirke s vechno nedovolnoj mamoj: s rabotoj v Makhachkale ne slozhilos, prishlos vernutsja v rodnoj Bujnaksk. Kazhetsja, v gorode, da i vo vsej strane dela idut neplokho: vojna okonchena (ili ne sovsem?), glava gosudarstva polon sil (a tochno li?), razrushennye "novye territorii" vosstanavlivajutsja (ili net?). Spontannyj pokhod na istoricheskuju lektsiju v mestnom muzee perevorachivaet tikhuju zhizn Aidy s nog na golovu - a potom strannye sobytija nachinajut proiskhodit i v Bujnakske, i daleko za ego predelami. Svoju pervuju povest "Salam tebe, Dalgat!" (2009) o dne iz zhizni junogo makhachkalintsa Alisa Ganieva podpisala muzhskim psevdonimom, chtoby izbezhat predvzjatosti kritikov i chitatelej, - i poluchila za nee premiju "Debjut". Uzhe pod svoim imenem ona napisala tri romana ("Prazdnichnaja gora", "Zhenikh i nevesta", "Oskorblennye chuvstva") i biografiju Lili Brik ("Ee Lilichestvo Brik na fone Ljutsiferova veka"). V novoj knige Ganieva vnov pishet o Dagestane, na etot raz dazhe ne sovremennom - a iz nedalekogo buduschego.

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.

Sbornik rasskazov "Vremja vyshlo" - popytka ukhvatit realnost, sozdat slepok nastojaschego i vsmotretsja v buduschee. Trinadtsat izvestnykh sovremennykh rossijskikh pisatelej - Andrej Rubanov, Sergej Shargunov, German Sadulaev, Eduard Verkin, Aleksandr Ilichevskij, Aleksandr Snegirjov, Aleksandr Pelevin, Aleksej Salnikov, Dmitrij Zakharov, Ksenija Buksha, Vadim Panov, Alisa Ganieva i Denis Dragunskij - obraschajutsja k zhanru antiutopii i razmyshljajut o tom, chto nas zhdjot. Trinadtsat rasskazov, napisannykh dlja etogo sbornika, - eto trinadtsat otdelnykh mirov, alternativnykh realnostej, nepokhozhikh odna na druguju: fantasticheskie, uslovnye, realistichnye, grotesknye. Eto ne tolko sovremennyj literaturnyj protsess v miniatjure, no i okruzhajuschij nas mir vo vsjom svojom mnogoobrazii. I buduschee etogo mira, v kotorom chto-to poshlo ne tak. TsitatyIvanov predpolozhil, chto esli kapital imeet soznanie, to glavnoe ego zhelanie - byt vlozhennym, investirovannym, pomenjat khozjaina. Inymi slovami, esli dengi imejut razum - oni mechtajut o tom, chtoby ikh potratili. Iskhodja iz etoj teorii, v te vremena kazavshejsja somnitelnoj ili dazhe ereticheskoj, Az Ivanov razrabotal matematicheskij proekt printsipialno novoj mirovoj valjuty: tak nazyvaemye mysljaschie dengi. Riksha prishjol v khoroshee nastroenie, i kazhdyj raz, kogda mototsikl opasno podnimalsja na dva kolesa i ljulku otryvalo ot dorogi, on khokhotal. On krichal o tom, chto vsjo katitsja k chjortu, ves mir, normalnykh svechej ne najti, chto etanol dorozhaet, chto s vokzalnoj ploschadi utrom ubrali semnadtsat mertvetsov, i eti semnadtsat - edinstvennye schastlivye ljudi v etom sranom gorode i v etom sranom mire, chto eschjo tolko dekabr i shansov perezhdat etu zimu malo, tak malo. I nikto ne uspel nichego sdelat, nikto ne vyzhil; v oslepitelnom vzryve razneslis po beskrajnemu kosmosu oskolki nashej planety vmeste so vsemi nashimi nadezhdami na luchshee, chuvstvami, mysljami, russkoj literaturoj, repom, feminizmom tretej volny, voenno-istoricheskimi rekonstruktorami, novymi kritikami, gejami, stalinistami, patriotami, poslednim albomom Devida Boui, pylnym stolbom sveta v okne na zakate, vechernim priboem u Finskogo zaliva, dranymi obojami v babushkinoj kvartire, dyrjavym zhetonchikom nizhegorodskogo metro, sporami o russkom ili ukrainskom borsche, shavermoj u Dzhamala na Dumskoj, karlikom-sodomitom iz tsirka dlja dushevnobolnykh, gorkim glotkom tjoplogo piva iz butylki na skamejke v Mytischakh, i samimi Mytischami, i dozhdichkom v chetverg, i rakom na gore, i poslednim soobscheniem v "Telegrame" ot tvoej byvshej, i samoj tvoej byvshej, i tvoej byvshej zhiznju, i tvoej nesbyvshejsja zhiznju, ptitsami, rybami, snami, slonami, olenjami, nebesami, vot i privet, vot i priekhali, vsem dobryj vecher. Ob avtorakhTrinadtsat izvestnykh sovremennykh rossijskikh pisatelej - Andrej Rubanov, Sergej Shargunov, German Sadulaev, Eduard Verkin, Aleksandr Ilichevskij, Aleksandr Snegirjov, Aleksandr Pelevin, Aleksej Salnikov, Dmitrij Zakharov, Ksenija Buksha, Vadim Panov, Alisa Ganieva, Denis Dragunskij.

One of The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2018One of World Literature Today's Notable Translations of 2018One of the Asian Book Review's Best Books of 2018From one of the most exciting voices in modern Russian literature, Alisa Ganieva, comes Bride and Groom, the tumultuous love story of two young city-dwellers who meet when they return home to their families in rural Dagestan. When traditional family expectations and increasing religious and cultural tension threaten to shatter their bond, Marat and Patya struggle to overcome obstacles determined to keep them apart, while fate seems destined to keep them together?until the very end.

"Ganieva's writing has a kind of magic." -- Lauren Smart, Dallas Observer "Never before has Russian literature produced such an honest and complete picture of today's Caucasus."-- Kommersant Weekend (Russia) **One of the Dallas Observer's "10 Books To Read This Fall" ****World Literature Today Editor's Pick** This remarkable debut novel by a unique young Russian voice portrays the influence of political intolerance and religious violence in the lives of people forced to choose between evils. The Mountain and the Wall focuses on Shamil, a young local reporter in Makhachkala, and his reactions, or lack thereof, to rumors that the Russian government is building a wall to cut off the Muslim provinces of the Caucasus from the rest of Russia. As unrest spreads and the tension builds, Shamil's life is turned upside down, and he can no longer afford to ignore the violence surrounding him. With a fine sense for mounting catastrophe, Alisa Ganieva tells the story of the decline of a society torn apart by its inherent extremes.