Laureat premii RUSSKIY BUKER-2015
Laureat premii YASNAYA POLYANA-2015 v nominatsii «XXI vek»
Laureat premii BOL'SHAYA KNIGA-2015

Istoricheskaya drama. Vsem raskulachennym i pereselennym posvyashchayetsya.
Istoriya zhizni i lyubvi raskulachennykh pereselentsev v Sibiri.
Predisloviye Lyudmily Ulitskoy.

Roman "Zuleykha otkryvayet glaza" nachinayetsya zimoy 1930 goda v glukhoy tatarskoy derevne. Krest'yanku Zuleykhu vmeste s sotnyami drugikh pereselentsev otpravlyayut v vagone-teplushke po izvechnomu katorzhnomu marshrutu v Sibir'.otstaivaya u taygi i bezzhalostnogo gosudarstva svoye pravo na zhizn'.
Vsem raskulachennym i pereselennym posvyashchayetsya.

Ob avtore:
Guzel' Yakhina rodilas' i vyrosla v Kazani, okonchila fakul'tet inostrannykh yazykov, uchitsya na stsenarnom fakul'tete Moskovskoy shkoly kino. Publikovalas' v zhurnalakh "Neva", "Sibirskiye ogni", "Oktyabr'".

Tsitata:
"Roman "Zuleykha otkryvayet glaza" - velikolepnyy debyut. On obladayet glavnym kachestvom nastoyashchey literatury - popadayet pryamo v serdtse. Rasskaz o sud'be glavnoy geroini, tatarskoy krest'yanki vremen raskulachivaniya, dyshit takoy podlinnost'yu, dostovernost'yu i obayaniyem, kotoryye ne tak uzh chasto vstrechayutsya v posledniye desyatiletiya v ogromnom potoke sovremennoy prozy".

Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Dremuchiye krest'yane i leningradskiye intelligenty, deklassirovannyy element i ugolovniki, musul'mane i khristiane, yazychniki i ateisty, russkiye, tatary, nemtsy, chuvashi - vse vstretyatsya na beregakh Angary, yezhednevno