Potiphar's wife, also known as Zuleikha (/ zuːˈleɪkɑː / zoo-LAY-kah; Hebrew: זְלִיכָה, romanized: Zəlīḵā; Arabic: زُلَيْخَا, romanized: Zulayḵā), is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. She was the wife of Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard in the time of Jacob and his twelve sons. Zuleikha (Russian: Зулейха́ открыва́ет глаза́, romanized: Zuleykha otkryvayet glaza) [“Zuleykha Opens Her Eyes”] is a debut novel written in 2015 by the Russian author Guzel Yakhina. Zuleikha is exiled to siberia and forced to leave behind everything she knows
Yet in that harsh, desolate wilderness, she begins to build a new life for herself and discovers an inner strength she never knew she had. When murtaza is executed by communist soldiers, she is sent into exile to a remote region on the angara river in siberia. In a small tartar village, a woman named zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists
Zuleikha is guzel yakhina ’s most successful novel and an international bestseller, translated into over 30 languages She is then forced to board a train bound for siberia.
