Ooh, ooh, Sofia Samatar's The White Mosque! I gave it a full review last year here. This book has stuck with me so hard, right up to the present day, and I actually think you might connect even more with the Weird Protestantisms of it all than I was able to.
(Also, this does not fit your request, I am sorry, but I am compelled to recommend M.T. Anderson's Symphony for the City of the Dead to everyone over and over again, and I mean, it is about the Siege of Leningrad, but it's meant for the YA market, so it's not THAT heavy [right???], and mostly it's about Shostakovich surviving under Stalinism through the power of art, community, and dogged hope! And the audiobook has snippets of the music so you can actually hear what is being described! It's a genuinely incredible book and a worthy use of the audiobook format! It has history and cultural criticism?)
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(Also, this does not fit your request, I am sorry, but I am compelled to recommend M.T. Anderson's Symphony for the City of the Dead to everyone over and over again, and I mean, it is about the Siege of Leningrad, but it's meant for the YA market, so it's not THAT heavy [right???], and mostly it's about Shostakovich surviving under Stalinism through the power of art, community, and dogged hope! And the audiobook has snippets of the music so you can actually hear what is being described! It's a genuinely incredible book and a worthy use of the audiobook format! It has history and cultural criticism?)