EAN: 9780141983561

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS LAST WITNESSES - SVET...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph '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.

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