Boys in Zinc: Svetlana Alexievich (Penguin Modern Classics)

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We were advancing on Jalalabad and a little girl of about seven years old was standing by the roadside.

Alexievich was brought to trial in Minsk between 1992 and 1996, accused of distorting and falsifying the testimony of Afghan veterans and their mothers who were 'offended [.It was always the blue-eyed heroes who were the first to be killed: you’d meet one of those types and before you knew it, he was dead. Belarusian: Святла́на Алякса́ндраўна Алексіе́віч Svyatlana Alaksandrawna Aleksiyevich Belarusian pronunciation: [alʲɛksʲiˈjɛvʲit͡ʂ]; Russian: Светла́на Алекса́ндровна Алексие́вич Russian pronunciation: [ɐlʲɪksʲɪˈjevʲɪt͡ɕ]; Ukrainian: Світлана Олександрівна Алексієвич. The course of the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) is told through emotive personal testimony from unnamed participants of the war; from nurses to commissioned officers and pilots, mothers and widows. Alexievich weaves together the stories told by more than a hundred officers, enlisted men, wives, mothers and widows into an artfully elaborate collage.

Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own, distinctive non-fiction genre which brings together a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.Obviously paying for a pdf isn’t a great deal, but I’m outta day job work so a contribution towards my living costs would be appreciated by me and my dog and my lover. When they brought the zinc coffin into the room, I lay on top of it and measured it again and again.

The book was finished in 1983 and published (in short edition) in Oktyabr, a Soviet monthly literary magazine, in February 1984.

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