RKN blocked links to the books “Until Paradise” by Yanagihara and “Windows to the courtyard” of Franco; The novels were mentioned in the case against PopCorn Books and Individuum

Links with the books “Until the Paradise” by Khany Yanagikhara and “Windows to the Dvor” of Mikita Franco blocked in Russia. Attention to this was drawn by Roskomvoboda.

Yanagikhara limited access to the book on the websites of the Tochka24 online store and the MP3Book.me online biblioteurs, and Franco's work was blocked on online resources for reading Knigigo and Topknigi . What are the locks of Roskomnadzor is not yet known.

Earlier, as noted by Roskomsvoboda, the books of both authors demanded to withdraw in connection with the presence of LGBT propaganda in them. The works “Until Paradise” and “Windows to the Dvor” are also mentioned in the employees of publishing houses Individuum and Popcorn Books , accused of involvement in extremism due to the release of literature on the LGBT topic.

In mid -May, the court in Moscow sent under house arrest three employees of publishing houses Individuum and Popcorn Books . Soon after, bookstores began to receive from suppliers the requirements to return or destroy 37 books mentioned in the criminal case "in order to avoid adverse consequences."

Both books are considered bestsellers. Three stories that occur in the alternative version of New York in 1893, 1993 and 2093 are connected in the novel “Until Paradise”, as well as the topics of freedom, love, politics and the struggle for identity. The book “Windows to the courtyard” tells about the life of a teenager from a same -sex family and about moving the young man and his relatives to Vancouver. The novel touches on the problems of loneliness, emigration and acceptance of oneself.