The Two Lives of One Woman: On Guzel Yakhina’s “Zuleikha”

WHEN I WAS a student in Perm, Russia, my university friend told me that her grandparents were kulaks. The term dates back to the era of collectivization, a harsh agrarian reform that took place in the Soviet Union between the late 1920s and the early ’30s. Hitherto privately owned land and cattle were forcefully confiscated […] The post The Two Lives of One Woman: On Guzel Yakhina’s “Zuleikha” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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