Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina (ONEWORLD, 2019)
Soviet Russia, 1930. Zuleikha, the (3z(Bpitiful hen,(3y (Blives 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 Zuleikhas
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