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A multi-prize-winning debut novel from one of Russia´s most exciting new talents

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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.

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´A powerful account of individual lives trapped in one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.´
The Times

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Hayden, Lisa C.
Lisa C. Hayden ´s translations from the Russian include Eugene Vodolazkin´s Laurus , which won a Read Russia Award in 2016. Laurus and Lisa´s translation of Vadim Levental´s Masha Regina were both shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. Her blog, Lizok´s Bookshelf, examines contemporary Russian fiction. She lives in Maine, USA.

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