Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories

Svetlana Alexievich

Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
19 January 2021
Pages
320
ISBN
9780141983561

Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories

Svetlana Alexievich

Extraordinary stories about Soviet children’s experiences in 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 Soviet Union in 1985, 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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