Zuleikha
Zuleikha
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.
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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.