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The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich
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*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*
The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women’s experiences 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.
’ As with her other books, terrifying documentation meets great artfulness of construction’ Julian Barnes, Guardian’
Alexievich’s artistry has raised oral history to a totally different dimension’ Antony Beevor’
Alexievich serves no ideology, only an ideal: to listen closely enough to the ordinary voices of her time to orchestrate them into extraordinary books’ Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker

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Dane bibliograficzne / Bibliographic info
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Type of product książka / book
Dział / Department Książki i czasopisma / Books and periodicals
Autor / Author Svetlana Alexievich
Tytuł / Title The Unwomanly Face of War
Język / Language angielski
Wydawca / Publisher Penguin Books
Rok wydania / Published in year 2017
Rodzaj oprawy / Binding type Miękka
Wymiary / Size 14.0x22.0
Liczba stron / Number of pages 332
Ciężar / Weight 0.424 kg
   
ISBN 9780141983523 (9780141983523)
EAN/UPC 9780141983523
Stan produktu / Condition nowy / new - sprzedajemy wyłącznie nowe nieużywane produkty
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Nośnik Oprawa Rok wydania Dostępność Pokaż
książka / book (j. angielski) Miękka 2018 Dostępna [pokaż]
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