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Boys in Zinc de Svetlana Alexievich

Boys in Zinc: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Svetlana Alexievich Traducere de Andrew Bromfield
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2017
The haunting story of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015. First published in the USSR in 1991.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241264119
ISBN-10: 0241264111
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Svetlana Alexievich (Author)
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own non-fiction genre which brings together a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Boys in Zinc (1991), Chernobyl Prayer (1997) and Second-Hand Time (2013). She has won many international awards, including the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
 

Recenzii

Alexievich serves no ideology, only an ideal: to listen closely enough to the ordinary voices of her time to orchestrate them into extraordinary books
As shattering and addictive asChernobyl Prayer, this is a polyphonic tour de force that shines a light on war, the plight of heroes, and why post-Soviet Russia is as it is
A masterpiece of reportage
Alexievich is like a doctor probing the scar tissue of a traumatised nation
What Alexievich is doing is giving voice to the voiceless, exposing not only stories we wouldn't otherwise hear but individuals as well
The least well-known wonderful writer I've ever come across
Alexievich has become one of my heroes
The Belarusian writer has spent decades in listening mode. Alexievich put in thousands of hours with her tape recorder across the lands of the former Soviet Union, collecting and collating stories from ordinary people. She wove those tales into elegant books of such power and insight, that in 2015 she received the Nobel prize for literature
Alexievich's "documentary novels" are crafted and edited with a reporter's cool eye for detail and a poet's ear for the intricate rhythms of human speech. Reading them is like eavesdropping on a confessional. This is history at its rawest and most uncomfortably intimate
Alexievich's artistry has raised oral history to a totally different dimension
Alexievich has become one of my heroes

Descriere

The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015
- A new translation based on the updated text -
From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins. Boys in Zinc presents the honest testimonies of soldiers, doctors and nurses, mothers, wives and siblings who describe the lasting effects of war. Weaving together their stories, Svetlana Alexievich shows us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan conflict: the killing and the beauty of small everyday moments, the shame of returned veterans, the worries of all those left behind. When it was first published in the USSR in 1991, Boys in Zinc sparked huge controversy for its unflinching, harrowing insight into the realities of war.