Zuleikha -

Guzel Yakhina

Oneworld Publications

2020

496 páginas

16h 32m

ISBN-10: 1786076845

WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARD

A sweeping, multi-award winning novel set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, as gangs of marauding soldiers terrorise and plunder the countryside.

Zuleikha, the 'pitiful hen', is living in the home of her brutal husband and despotic mother-in-law in a small Tatar village. When her husband is executed by communist soldiers for hiding grain, she is arrested and sent into exile in Siberia. In the first gruelling winter, hundreds die of hunger, cold and exhaustion. Yet forced to survive in that harsh, desolate wilderness, she begins to build a new life for herself and discovers an inner strength she never knew she had. Exile is the making of Zuleikha.

Resenhas (1)

5 (Perfeito)

She and Ignatov will catch sight of one another and stop, he on one edge of the clearing, she on the other.
He will suddenly realize how much he's aged. Eyes that have lost their sharp sight will not be able to discern the wrinkles on Zuleikha's face or the gray in her hair. And she will sense that while the pain that fills the world hasn't gone, it has allowed her to breathe.