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Everything you need to know about svetlana alexievich. Soviet voices from the afghanistan war svetlana alexievich, larry heinemann isbn. From 197989, moscow tried, unavailingly, through force of arms to support a puppet regime in a hostile land. From 1979 to 1989 a million soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in afghanistan that claimed 50. Svetlana alexievich, belarusian journalist and prose writer whose meticulously crafted works provided a compelling and uncompromising portrayal of the social and political upheaval within the soviet union from the postwar era to the fall of communism. She was awarded the 2015 nobel prize in literature for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time. Before she was awarded the nobel prize in literature in 2015, alexievich produced four more books of collective oral history, including zinky boys, voices from chernobyl and. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. An affecting, often haunting, compilation of firstperson testimony on the soviet experience in afghanistan. What made this book so powerful, so heartbreaking, was its simplicity. Soviet voices from the afghanistan war by svetlana alexievich 4,181 ratings, 4. The book was published in english as zinky boys, which is awkward.

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