Zuleykha Otkryvayet Glaza

Guzel Yakhina rodilas i vyrosla v Kazani, okonchila fakultet inostrannykh yazykov, uchitsya na stsenarnom fakultete Moskovskoy shkoly kino. Publikovalas v zhurnalakh «Neva», «Sibirskiye ogni», «Oktyabr».Roman «Zuleykha otkryvayet glaza» nachinayetsya zimoy 1930 goda v glukhoy tatarskoy derevne. Krestyanku Zuleykhu vmeste s sotnyami drugikh pereselentsev otpravlyayut v vagone-teplushke po izvechnomu katorzhnomu marshrutu v Sibir.Dremuchiye krestyane i leningradskiye intelligenty, deklassirovannyy element i ugolovniki, musulmane i khristiane, yazychniki i ateisty, russkiye, tatary, nemtsy, chuvashi - vse vstretyatsya na beregakh Angary, yezhednevno otstaivaya u taygi i bezzhalostnogo gosudarstva svoye pravo na zhizn.Vsem raskulachennym i pereselennym posvyashchayetsya.