Book>> Folklore • Azerbaijan
Five years after it was published by Azerbaijan’s distinguished National Academy of Sciences, an anthology of folklores is causing a stir in the country bordering the Caspian Sea.
The matter came to notice after one story in the sixth volume of the anthology, Tales, started making the rounds online, primarily because it is full of vulgar language and graphic scenes of incest, reports RFE/RL.
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