Premise: Sonechka is a novella and collection of short stories by Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya. It was originally published in Russian in the literary journal "Novy Mir" in 1992, and translated into English by Arch Tait in 2005. "Sonechka" was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize.
Hypothesis: The literary journal "Novy Mir" heavily censored Sonechka for lewd material.