Guzel Yakhina: Echelon to Samarkand

Guzel Yakhina is the brightest debutante in the history of modern Russian literature, winner of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards, author of the bestsellers Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes and My Children.
Her new book "Echelon to Samarkand" is a travel novel and a kind of "red eastern". 1923 Head of the echelon Deev and Commissioner Belaya evacuate five hundred homeless children from Kazan to Samarkand. A series of exciting and terrible adventures on the way, a vast geography - from the forests of the Volga region and the Kazakh steppes to the deserts of Kyzyl-Kum and the mountains of Turkestan, a palette of destinies and characters: refugee peasants, Chekists, Cossacks, the eccentric world of little tramps with their language, psychology, superstition and hopes...

Author: Guzel Yakhina

Pages: 512 (offset). Hard cover

Dimensions: 220x150x32mm