Last witnesses : unchildlike stories
Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-2020
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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.
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heatons Library | Adult non-fiction paperback | 940.53161 ALE | Available |
Main title:
Last witnesses : unchildlike stories / Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Author:
Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-, authorPevear, Richard, 1943-, translatorVolokhonsky, Larissa, translator
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2020.
Collation:
x, 295 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.This translation originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9780141983561 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.531610947940.53161
Language:
EnglishRussian
Subject:
BRN:
2935082