Zuleikha opens her eyes
Number of pages: 512
Cover: Hardcover
Guzel Yakhina was born and raised in Kazan, graduated from the faculty of foreign languages, studies at the screenwriting faculty of the Moscow Film School. Published in the magazines "Neva", "Sibirskie Ogni", "Oktyabr".
The novel "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes" begins in the winter of 1930 in a remote Tatar village. The peasant woman Zuleikha, along with hundreds of other settlers, is sent in a freight car along the eternal penal route to Siberia.
The dense peasants and Leningrad intellectuals, the declassed element and criminals, Muslims and Christians, pagans and atheists, Russians, Tatars, Germans, Chuvashes - all will meet on the banks of the Angara, daily defending their right to life against the taiga and the ruthless state.
Dedicated to all those dispossessed and resettled.