Name: Los muchachos de zinc (in Spanish)
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Author: Alexievich Svetlana
ISBN: 9789873752506

portada Los muchachos de zinc (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Svetlana Alexievich

Author

Alexievich Svetlana

Publisher

DEBATE

Collection

DEBATE

Year

2016

Language

Spanish

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23x15.1 cm

ISBN13

9789873752506

Edited in

Argentina

Synopsis "Los muchachos de zinc (in Spanish)"

Entre 1979 y 1989 un millón de soviéticos combatieron en una guerra devastadora en Afganistán que el régimen comunista intentó ocultar: los muertos volvían a casa en ataúdes de zinc sellados, mientras el Estado no reconocía el conflicto. La publicación de Los muchachos de zinc en la Unión Soviética generó una inmensa polémica: las críticas acusaron a Alexiévich de haber escrito un «texto fantasioso lleno de injurias» y de formar parte de «un coro histérico de ataques malignos». El libro presenta el testimonio cándido y emotivo de los oficiales y los soldados rasos, de las enfermeras y las prostitutas, las madres, los hijos y las hijas que describen la guerra y sus duraderos efectos. El resultado es una historia perturbadora que expone la verdad de la lucha armada: la belleza del país y los brutales abusos del ejército, las muertes y las mutilaciones, las vidas humilladas y destrozadas de los veteranos. Los muchachos de zinc ofrece una perspectiva única, desgarradora e inolvidable.

Svetlana Alexievich

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Writer Svetlana Alexievich is known for her innovative narrative approach that combines oral testimony and literature to explore the major events and tragedies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Born on May 31, 1948, in Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where her family settled shortly after her birth

After studying journalism at the University of Minsk, Alexievich worked as a teacher, reporter, and editor, developing a particular interest in the individual stories of ordinary people affected by historical events. This distinctive approach led her to create a unique literary style, which she herself defines as "novels of voices"

Her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War (1983), compiled the accounts of Soviet women who participated in World War II, revealing their experiences from an intimate and previously unexplored perspective. This work, like many that followed, encountered censorship from Soviet authorities, but also received great recognition for its authenticity and depth

Other of her most influential works include Zinky Boys (1989), which addresses the experiences of Soviet soldiers in the Afghanistan war, and Voices from Chernobyl (1997), a harrowing choral account of the 1986 nuclear tragedy. These books, along with The End of the "Homo Sovieticus" (2013), have established Alexievich as one of the most important chroniclers of the post-Soviet world.

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María Luciana González Mattenent Monday, August 16, 2021
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Excelente!!!una autora que sabe muy bien expresar las vivencias y el dolor de los soviéticos en la guerra de Afganistán.
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