'A major work by one of our greatest living historians. . . an immense achievement' - Jane Graham, Big Issue 'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, Guardian Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. With remarkable care and empathy, Alexievich gives voice to those whose stories are lost in the official narratives, uncovering a powerful, hidden history of one of the most important events of the twentieth century. Published to great acclaim in the USSR in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war - and an extraordinary chronicle of the Russian soul.

Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories

Svetlana Alexievich

Penguin

Chernobyl Prayer

Penguin Uk

Winner of the Nobel Prize: "For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." (Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation) From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties - and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR - it was called by reviewers there a "slanderous piece of fantasy" and part of a "hysterical chorus of malign attacks" - Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term "Zinky Boys"), while the state denied the very existence of the conflict. Svetlana Alexievich brings us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan War: the beauty of the country and the savage Army bullying, the killing and the mutilation, the profusion of Western goods, the shame and shattered lives of returned veterans. Zinky Boys offers a unique, harrowing, and unforgettably powerful insight into the realities of war. The introduction has been omitted due to rights issues.

Zinky Boys

History

Asia

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardOn April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown---from innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disaster---and their stories reveal the fear, anger, and uncertainty with which they still live. Comprised of interviews in monologue form, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucially important work, unforgettable in its emotional power and honesty.

Voices From Chernobyl: Chronicle Of The Future

Dalkey Archive Pr

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Europe

This is not a book about Chernobyl, but about the world it has left us. Alexievich spent three years interviewing dozens of survivors, victims and witnesses. This is their testimony, their voices, and they are unforgettable.'

Voices from Chernobyl

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Aurum Press Ltd

Les cercueils de zinc - Prix Nobel de Littérature 2015 [ Nobel Prize 2015 ] (French Edition)

Svetlana Alexievitch

Dmitri Savitski

French and European Publications Inc

Edition de 2005. De tous les textes de Svetlana Alexievitch, celui-ci est le plus déchirant. Car qu'y a-t-il de plus terrible que l'enfance dans la guerre, de plus tragique que l'innocence soumise à l'abjection de la violence et de l'anéantissement ? Les personnages de ce livre ont entre trois et douze ans. Garçons et filles, ils ont grandi au c ur des ténèbres du plus inhumain des conflits, cette Seconde Guerre mondiale dont les plaies restent toujours béantes soixante ans après. Publié une première fois dans une édition tronquée, mutilée par la censure encore soviétique à la fin des années quatre-vingt, jamais traduit en français, Derniers témoins parait aujourd'hui pour la première fois dans sa version définitive, achevée en 2004. Il a donc fallu à Svetlana Alexievitch près d'un quart de siècle pour mettre un point final à ce monument de la littérature, dressé pour commémorer la plus injuste des souffrances. La poésie inhérente à l'enfance lui confère une force d'évocation qui nous touche au plus profond de nous-mêmes. Bouleversant par sa charge de vérité, émouvant jusqu'à l'insoutenable, Derniers témoins change notre regard sur l'histoire, sur le monde, sur la guerre, sur l'enfance, sur la vie.

Derniers témoins - Prix Nobel de Littérature 2015 (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Polish photographer Rafal Milach accompanied with his camera seven young people living in the Russian cities of Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Krasnoyarsk. In intimate pictures, he portrays a generation caught up between the mentality of the old Soviet regime and the up-and-coming Russia of the Putin era. In this album, bound in high-grade synthetic leather, these snapshots of contemporary Russian life are accompanied by sensitive interviews with those portrayed.
7 Rooms was shortlisted for Paris Photo Aperture PhotoBook Award 2012 in the category First Book and was winner of the Best Photography Book Pictures of the Year Award 2011.

7 Rooms

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Kehrer Verlag

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Japanese Edition)

Iwanami Shoten

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