Publication Date: 05/11/2020 ISBN: 9780141983561 Category:

Last Witnesses

Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 05/11/2020 ISBN: 9780141983561 Category:
Paperback / Softback

£10.99

Quantity:

Description

Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph

‘Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth’ – Caroline Moorehead, Guardian

Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of 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 USSR in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war – and an extraordinary chronicle of the Russian soul.

Book experts at your service

What are you looking for?

A recommendation
Something specific
  • Mr B's Recommendation Station
  • Fill in the three questions below, along with your name and email address, and our book experts will be in touch soon with their personal recommendations

  • I'm after something specific
  • Tell us about the book, author or subject you're looking for, along with your name and email address and our book experts will be in touch as soon as possible