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Zuleikha (2015)

por Guzel Yakhina

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The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. As she gets to know her companions - including a rather dotty doctor, an artist who paints on the sly, and Ignatov, her husband's killer - Zuleikha begins to build a new life that is far removed from the one she left behind. Guzel Yakhina's outstanding debut has been showered with prizes and is capturing the hearts of readers all over the world.… (mais)
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Zuleikha Valieva lives an oppressed existence. It’s not because she lives in a village near Kazan, USSR, 1930, and the Soviet regime crushes her, though it’s about to. Rather, her husband, Murtaza, gives her nothing except hard blows and harder words, using her as beast of burden and sex object and haranguing her every move — that is, when he bothers to notice. Murtaza’s mother is even worse. She promises that the fates will punish Zuleikha, who’s a weakling, good for nothing — hasn’t she given birth only to daughters, all four of whom have died in infancy? — while Murtaza, like Mama, is strong, a born survivor.

But prophecy isn’t her chief talent, for the Soviet administration has decided that kulaks — landowning peasants, like the Valievs — are enemies of the state. And when soldiers come for their grain, livestock, and butter to feed the city populace, Murtaza fights back and dies for it.

Good riddance, you think. But Zuleikha has believed every harsh word ever spoken to her and figures that Allah has marked her for punishment. Scared to death of what will happen next, she doesn’t understand why she must leave her village to go someplace far away; she, like many other kulaks and other “undesirables,” are being exiled, though no one will say where they’re headed. But what Zuleikha and her companions don’t realize is that they’ve just been handed a ticket to freedom. The rest of the novel shows how that happens, to what degree, and how much happiness, if any, they derive from living at the ends of the earth.

Aside from her ability to work her fingers to the bone, because that’s what life demands, Zuleikha has a fatalistic outlook that will stand her in good stead. Other notable characters include a demented doctor who’s somehow a capable clinician; the camp lickspittle, a truly despicable sort who always bobs up like a cork, no matter who pushes him down; and a couple members of the intelligentsia, city slickers who’ve seen Paris, not just Leningrad or Moscow. The camp commandant, who killed Murtaza and has a thing for Zuleikha’s green eyes, comes to feel for his charges, though he can’t say so or even let himself think it. For all these, banishment to Siberia spares them from worse punishment, for the camp is a backwater, where purges don’t reach.

You just know that these people, had they remained where they were, would have been swept up by the secret police, even—especially—the commandant. For the longest time, he resents his posting, in his pride mistakenly thinking that the bureaucracy has shunted him aside, after all his many accomplishments. The political message comes through loud and clear, though Yakhina never spells it out: here’s a cross-section of people who, for better and worse, built the Soviet state, receiving no thanks for their pains and, more often, a whip across the face.

Zuleikha has a touch of the fairytale—witness the demented doctor who remembers a remarkable amount of his training—yet reality takes front and center. In fact, when the pain of what he experiences penetrates his consciousness, he has the persistent fantasy that he’s living inside an eggshell, which shields him from the suffering all around and allows him to exist. So even when Yakhina surrenders to gauzy fantasies, she tries to twist them, make them her own.

You won’t recognize Solzhenitsyn’s gulag in her Siberian camp, though many exiles die from the harsh atmosphere and poor food. She’s more interested in the survivors, who find skills or character traits they didn’t know they had. In this, Zuleikha is Exhibit A. Her acquisition of a spine is a marvelous transformation to behold, and Yakhina’s careful not to let her consummate masochist turn into a different person altogether.

Nevertheless, at times I wonder whether our heroine would be able to achieve what her creator intends, even less that Zuleikha feels drawn to the commandant, who killed her husband, after all — though, to be fair, her sense of attraction causes her guilt.

Overall, however, Zuleikha is an excellent novel, a first novel, surprisingly, full of rich, evocative prose, sharp political commentary, and a story cast against type. ( )
  Novelhistorian | Jan 25, 2023 |
Das Buch behandelt ca. 16 Jahre im Leben der tatarischen Bäuerin Suleika. Es steigt ein, als die etwa 30-jährige rechtlos auf dem Hof ihres deutlich älteren Mannes schuftet, ihre Töchter sind alle verstorben, ihre Schwiegermutter und ihr Mann achten sie gering. Im Rahmen von Stalins Entkulakisierung verliert Suleika den Besitz und auch den Ehemann und wird auf einen endlosen Transport nach Sibirien geschickt, den nur wenige überleben. In Sibirien müssen die Umgesiedelten unter den schlimmsten Bedingungen ihr Leben neu aufbauen.
Doch trotz dieser entsetzlichen Umstände behandelt das Buch auch, wie Suleika „ihre Augen öffnet“, also sich Gedanken macht, Entscheidungen trifft, ihr Leben lebt. Das Buch ist sehr interessant. Die historischen Geschehnisse sind schrecklich und zeigen ein grausames Regime. Ich habe das Buch auch gelesen, um in der jetzigen Zeit noch etwas mehr über Russland zu erfahren. Was ich erfahren habe, ist allerdings sehr bedrückend. Dennoch hat das Buch Hoffnungsanker, nicht zuletzt die Person Suleikas selbst. ( )
  Wassilissa | Mar 14, 2022 |
Suleika ist eine tatarische Bäuerin, die rechtlos am Hof ihres viel älteren Mannes lebt. Im Zuge der Entkulakisierung 1929 wird ihr Mann erschossen und die Bäuerin deportiert. Zunächst wird sie in Viehwaggons wochenlang quer durch die noch junge Sowjetunion gekarrt, ehe sie mit einer Gruppe Schicksalsgenossen am Ufer der Angara in der sibirischen Taiga ausgesetzt wird, um die Region wirtschaftlich zu erschließen.

Jachinas gut recherchierter und berührender Erstling erzählt von Stalins Verbrechen vor den großen Säuberungen und dem Holodomor. Im Kern geht es um die Entkulakisierung, sohin um Enteignung und Zwangsdeportation (vermeintlich) wohlhabender Bauern ab 1929 sowie deren Ansiedlung in unwirtliche Regionen, um auch diese wirtschaftlich nutzbar zu machen. Jachina erzählt von den Entbehrungen dieser unfreiwilligen Pioniere ebenso, wie von deren kleinem Glück. Im ersten und zweiten Teil des zwei Jahrzehnte umfassenden Werks gibt sie zudem einen Einblick in das ursprüngliche bäuerliche Leben in Tatarstan sowie den Roten Terror.

Trotzdem ist Jachinas Werk mehr als ein historischer Roman, die Autorin lässt Platz für Gefühle, sie überzeuigt mit bildhafter, schlichter Sprache und lässt anhand der Hauptprotagonistin Suleika und dem Mörder ihres Mannes, dem Rotarmisten Iwan Ignatow, eine großartige Entwicklungsgeschichte entstehen, welche den Leser von der ersten Seite weg fesselt. ( )
  schmechi | Dec 10, 2020 |
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I requested this book because the premise sounded interesting: a woman is removed from her brutal husband and mother-in-law and taken to Siberia where life is actually better than what she left behind. Also that it was based on a real person. When the almost-500-page book arrived in the mail I was daunted by the task ahead.

From the first page I was enthralled with Zuleikha's world: life as a Russian peasant (in modern times) just trying to eek out an existence. Then six months in a cattle car across Russia, a section that reminded me of countless Holocaust stories. At the end of their long journey Zuleikha and her new friends find themselves in the middle of nowhere with practically nothing. Welcome to your new home.

The author doesn't mince words and there is rarely any filler. Nearly every word on the page moves the story along. The author was descriptive of the landscape and the people, but spread it throughout the story, not just in a giant section.

The only thing I found disappointing was the way the ending happened. After nearly 500 pages of the story plodding along, it was like the author realized she needed a climax and an ending in the space of about seven pages. The action seemed jerky, almost like a movie on fast forward and you only get a frame here and there. Then the story just stopped.

All in all, I really enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone interested in life in Siberia during Soviet Russia. ( )
  sailorfigment | Jul 30, 2019 |
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I received this book through Librarything.com Early Member Giveaway for an honest review of the book. This is my own opinion on the book. The book takes place in 1930s Soviet Russia. Zuleikeha is sent into exile. Her husband is executed. I enjoyed this book. I like the main character. But I didn't care for the husband and the mother in law. ( )
  harleyqgrayson02 | Jul 20, 2019 |
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The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. As she gets to know her companions - including a rather dotty doctor, an artist who paints on the sly, and Ignatov, her husband's killer - Zuleikha begins to build a new life that is far removed from the one she left behind. Guzel Yakhina's outstanding debut has been showered with prizes and is capturing the hearts of readers all over the world.

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