Transl. by Andrew Bromfield. — New York: Penguin Classics, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN-10: 0241264111; ISBN-13: 978-0241264119. A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text. From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the dead...
Transl. by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait. — New York: Penguin Classics, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN-10: 9780241270530; ISBN-13: 978-0241270530. A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised version. In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years...
Transl. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. — New York: Random House, 2019. — 295 p. — ISBN-10: 0399588752; ISBN-13: 978-0399588754. For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing a new kind of literary genre, describing her work...
Transl. by Shayevich Bela. — New York: Random House, 2016. — 470 p. — ISBN-10: 0399588809; ISBN-13: 978-0399588808. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions—a history of the soul.” Alexievich’s distinctive documentary style, combining extended...
Transl. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. — New York: Random House, 2017. — 331 p. — ISBN-10: 0399588728; ISBN-13: 978-0399588723. In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors,...
Translated by Keith Gessen. — London: Picador, 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 0312425848; ISBN-13 978-0312425845. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book...
Transl. by Julia and Robin Whitby. Intr. by Larry Heinemann. — New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. — 222 p. — ISBN10: 0393336867; ISBN13: 978-0393336863. 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...
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