Russia

Zuleikha
by Guzel Yakhina

Author and filmmaker Guzel Yakhina is of Tartar origin and this story is based on her grandmother's account of being a Gulag survivor. We follow Zuleikha, forced into exile, on her journey to Siberia where, despite extreme cold and hardship, a succesful settlement is established. Winner of the English Pen Award, the Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana Award and Russia’s Big Book Award.

Translated by Lisa Hayden
One World, 2019
First published in 2015
ISBN 9781786076847