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Svetlana Alexievich
In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses…
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On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. While officials tried to hush up the accident, the author spent years collecting testimonies from…
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‘Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from…
Translation of: Charnobylskaeiia malitva.
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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…
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I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans. So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by…
The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 - A new translation based on the updated text
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Una historia oral innovadora de mujeres en la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Europa y Rusia, del ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura
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First published in Russian as Tchernobylskaia Molitva by Editions Ostojie, 1997 –T.p. verso.
Una obra maestra con una perspectiva unica y desgarradora sobre la guerra de Afganistan, de la Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015, Svetlana Alexievich, la voz de los sin voz .
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This work is based on Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of WWII, translation copyright A2019 by Penguin Random House LLC.
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During the World War 2, more than a million women sacrificed themselves to protect their own countries. But, today, nobody recognizes their sacrifices. Nobel award winning author, Svetlana Alexievich, is…
Alexievich charts the decline of Soviet culture and speculates on what will rise from the ashes of communism. Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in…
Winner of the Nobel Prize: For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time. -Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation
First published in Russian as Tchernobylskaia Molitva by Editions Ostojie, 1997 –Copyright page.
Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this book she creates a singular, polyphonic literary form by bringing together…
Bringing together dozens of voices … [this is a] collection of stories of women’s experiences in World War II, both on the front lines, on the home front, and in…
A masterpiece (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children’s experiences in World War II across Russia
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In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years…
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Maxim Osipov
The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story, who has been profiled in the New Yorker
Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a…
