Zuleikha Novel by Guzel Yakhina

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Zuleikha-Opens-Her-Eyes-Novel-by-Guzel-Yakhina-WINNER-OF-THE-BIG-BOOK-AWARD,-THE-YASNAYA-POLYANA-AWARD-AND-THE-BEST-PROSE-WORK-OF-THE-YEAR-AWARDSoviet-Russia,-1930.-Zuleikha,-the-“pitiful-hen,”-lives-with-her-brutal-husband-Murtaza-and-her-mother-in-law-in-a-small-Tartar-village.-When-Murtaza-is-executed-by-communist-soldiers,-she-is-sent-into-exile-to-a-remote-region-on-the-Angara-River-in-Siberia.-Hundreds-die-of-hunger-and-exhaustion-on-the-journey-and-over-the-first-difficult-winter,-yet-exile-is-the-making-of-Zuleikha.As-she-gets-to-know-her-fellow-survivors-―-among-them-an-eccentric-German-doctor,-a-painter,-and-the-conscience-stricken-Commander-Ignatov,-her-husband’s-killer-―Zuleikha-begins-to-build-a-new-life-far-removed-from-the-one-she-left-behind.Guzel-Yakhina’s-outstanding-debut-―-inspired-by-her-grandmother’s-childhood-memories-of-being-exiled-to-the-Gulag-―has-been-translated-into-twenty-one-languages,-capturing-the-hearts-of-readers-all-over-the-world.