Irina Muravyova’s new novel “Gardens of Heavenly Roots” is a phantasmagoric novel, cheerful and intensely spiritual, parody and frankly sublime, in which appeals to the Old and New Testaments merge with the song “Katyusha” and Russian romances - unexpected and in its own way a provocative page in her work. Muravyova writes riskily, works with the help of strong electrical discharges, she is not deterred by either the depth of biblical parables or the open “physicality” and eroticism of many scenes. A novel about earthly love between a man and a woman born in the shadow of a vineyard, gaining strength from chapter to chapter, becomes a novel about the inexhaustible love of a mother for her child.