Svetlana Alexievich The Unwomanly Face of War (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Unwomanly Face of WarCondition: NewEAN: 9780141983530ISBN: 9780141983530Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/06/2018Language: RussianItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 281gAuthor: Svetlana AlexievichTranslator: Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard PevearContributor: Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by), Richard Pevear (Translated by)ISBN-10: 0141983531Description: '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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryBook Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsTopic: Military History, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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