Review:
'In this spellbinding book, Svetlana Alexievich orchestrates a rich symphony of Russian voices telling their stories of love and death, joy and sorrow, as they try to make sense of the twentieth century, so tragic for their country.' --J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
About the Author:
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine in 1948 and grew up in Belarus. She's primarily a newspaper journalist, and spenther early career in Minsk compiling first-hand accounts of World War II, the Soviet-Afghan War, the fall of the Berlin Wall,and the Chernobyl meltdown. Her unflinching work - "the whole of our history ... is a huge common grave and a bloodbath"- earned her persecution from the Lukashenko regime, and she was forced to emigrate; she lived in Paris, Gothenburg,and Berlin before returning to Minsk in 2011. She's won a number of large prizes, including the National Book Critics CircleAward, the Prix Medicis, and the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award. In 2015, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
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