Zuleikha

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A Oneworld Book

First published in North America, Great Britain and Australia by Oneworld Publications, 2019

This ebook published 2019

Originally published in Russian Зулейха открывает глаза by AST, Redaktsia Eleny Shubinoi imprint, 2015

Published by arrangement with ELKOST Intl. Literary Agency

Copyright © Guzel Yakhina, 2015, 2019

Translation copyright © Lisa C. Hayden, 2019

The moral right of Guzel Yakhina to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

All rights reserved

Copyright under Berne Convention

A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78607-349-5

eBook ISBN 978-1-78607-350-1

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events or locales is entirely coincidental

Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation (Russia)

This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PEN’s PEN Translates programme, supported by Arts Council England. English PEN exists to promote literature and our understanding of it, to uphold writers’ freedoms around the world, to campaign against the persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views, and to promote the friendly co-operation of writers and the free exchange of ideas. www.englishpen.org

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