| #225204 in Books | W. W. Norton Company | 1992-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.70 x5.60l,.73 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ISBN13: 9780393336863 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| UN Women Gulf Coast Chapter Book Club|By Leita Kaldi Davis|The UN Women/USNC Gulf Coast Book Club met on Monday, March 14, 2016 to discuss Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich. The author, from Belarus, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” We|From Publishers Weekly|The 1979-1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan, as Russian author Alexievich remarks in this oral history, wrenched boys from their daily life of school or college, music and discos, and hurled them into a hell of filth. She conveys that hell her
Winner of the Nobel Prize: “For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” ―Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties―and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR―it was called by revi...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War | Svetlana Alexievich. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
