Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina eastern europe passionate nostalgia and piercing observations

passionate nostalgia and piercing observations

reflects on the nature of artistic inspiration and the problem of the poet’s place in a rapidly changing and ever more commercialized society

and continues to harbour

Unseen is a series of books that document hidden communities of London

and Mikhail Bakhtin

Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina eastern europe passionate nostalgia and piercing observationsA 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,