Name: The Unwomanly Face of war (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Author: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 9780141983530

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The Unwomanly Face of war (Penguin Modern Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Svetlana Alexievich

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780141983530

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The Unwomanly Face of war (Penguin Modern Classics)

Svetlana Alexievich (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Unwomanly Face of war (Penguin Modern Classics) "

'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's history."In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official narratives. Travelling thousands of miles, she spent years interviewing hundreds of Soviet women - captains, tank drivers, snipers, pilots, nurses and doctors - who had experienced the war on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. As it brings to light their most harrowing memories, this symphony of voices reveals a different side of war, a new range of feelings, smells and colours.After completing the manuscript in 1983, Alexievich was not allowed to publish it because it went against the state-sanctioned history of the war. With the dawn of Perestroika, a heavily censored edition came out in 1985 and it became a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union - the first in five books that have established her as the conscience of the twentieth century.

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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