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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russiafrom the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of a new kind of literary genre, describing her work as a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.
In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These womenmore than a million in totalwere nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.
Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these womens stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the warthe everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories.
Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war.
THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.
A Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
An astonishing book, harrowing and life-affirming . . . It deserves the widest possible Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
Alexievich has gained probably the worlds deepest, most eloquent understanding of the post-Soviet condition. . . . She] has consistently chronicled that which has been intentionally Gessen, National Book Award-winning author of The Future Is History
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 04/03/2018
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780399588747
Language: English
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