Svetlana Aleksievich
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The first book to present personal accounts of what happened on April 26, 1986, when the worst nuclear reactor accident in history contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Svetlana Alexievich--a journalist who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book--interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown. Their narratives form a crucial document revealing how the government masked the event with deception...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
The Unwomanly Face of War is the long-awaited English translation of Svetlana Alexievich's first book, a groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia. Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women - more than a million in total - were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners and snipers. They...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of communism....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of the memories of those who were children during World War II. These men and women were both witnesses and sometimes soldiers as well, and their generation grew up with the trauma of the war deeply embedded in them--a trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. This is a new version of the war we're so familiar with....
Author
Series
Publisher
Vremi͡a
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
Knigi Svetlany Alekseevich priti͡agivai͡ut i ottalkivai͡ut odnovremenno. S odnoĭ storony ėtot novyĭ neobychnyĭ zhanr, polifonicheskiĭ roman. S drugoĭ storony stilʹ, s kotorym napisany knigi. Avtor staraetsi͡a vyplesnutʹ na stranit͡sy kak mozhno bolʹshe gri͡azi, boli, negativa. Ne spori͡u, voĭna ėto ne romantika. I pisatʹ o neĭ s romanticheskim pafosom ne stoit... No zachem zhe tak? Kogda chitaeshʹ, sozdaëtsi͡a vpechatlenie,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vremѕ̀їі̀Œї̀¿a
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
Knigi Svetlany Alekseevich pritѕ̀їі̀Œї̀¿agivaѕ̀їі̀Œї̀¿ut i ottalkivaѕ̀їі̀Œї̀¿ut odnovremenno. S odno♭̆¡storony Æ̇þot novy♭̆¡neobychny♭̆¡zhanr, polifonicheski♭̆¡roman. S drugo♭̆¡storony stilѕ̀ўі̀Œї̀ℓ kotorym napisany knigi. Avtor staraets̀ѕїі̀Œї̀¿a vyplesnutʼ̉Ł straniѕ̀јі̀±sy kak mozhno bol·̂Æ grѕ̀їі̀Œї̀¿azi, boli, negativa. Ne sporѕ̀їі̀Œї̀¿u, vo♭̆ʼa...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
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. ...Journalist Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the tragic history of the Afghanistan War. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam - a resemblance that Larry Heinemann describes movingly...