Boys in Zinc

Name: Boys in Zinc
Author: Svetlana Alexievich

by Svetlana Alexievich

Accounts of Soviet soldiers in the Afghan War from body bags

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Svetlana Alexievich

Belarusian author and Nobel laureate who has created a unique form of documentary prose fiction compiled from hundreds of testimonies. Voices from Chernobyl, The Unwomanly Face of War, and Secondhand Time are her masterworks.

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Voices from ChernobylOral histories of Chernobyl disaster survivors and affected residents
The Unwomanly Face of WarTestimonies of Soviet women combatants in World War II
Secondhand TimeOral history documenting post-Soviet life and collapse of communism
Last WitnessesTestimonies from survivors of Nazi occupation and World War II