Zuleyha otkryvaet glaza

Roman "Zulejkha otkryvaet glaza" nachinaetsya zimoj 1930 goda v glukhoj tatarskoj derevne. Krest'yanku Zulejkhu vmeste s sotnyami drugikh pereselentsev otpravlyayut v vagone-teplushke po izvechnomu katorzhnomu marshrutu v Sibir'. Dremuchie krest'yane i leningradskie intelligenty, deklassirovannyj element i ugolovniki, musul'mane i khristiane, yazychniki i ateisty, russkie, tatary, nemtsy, chuvashi — vse vstretyatsya na beregakh Angary, ezhednevno otstaivaya u tajgi i bezzhalostnogo gosudarstva svoe pravo na zhizn'. Vsem raskulachennym i pereselennym posvyaschaetsya.