Name: Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices From the Afghanistan war (in English)
Price: 11.87 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 9781324051121

portada Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices From the Afghanistan war (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Svetlana Alexievich

Translated by

Andrew Bromfield

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.9 x 14.1 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781324051121

Synopsis "Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices From the Afghanistan war (in English)"

Before the United States' invasion, a million Soviet troops fought a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties--and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. The Soviet Union talked about a "peacekeeping" mission, while the dead were shipped back in zinc-lined coffins. In this new translation, Zinky Boys weaves together the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, doctors and nurses, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. A "masterpiece of reportage" (Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books) emerges of harrowing and unforgettable insight into war.

Svetlana Alexievich

(Author)

View Author's Page

(Ivano-Frankivsk, Ucrania, 1948) es una prestigiosa periodista y escritora bielorrusa cuya obra ofrece un retrato profundamente crítico de la antigua Unión Soviética y de las secuelas que ha dejado en sus habitantes. Su espíritu crítico, su profundo compromiso con los que sufren y su fructífera carrera literaria han sido reconocidos con innumerables galardones, entre los que cabe destacar el premio Nobel de Literatura (2015), el Premio Ryszard-Kapuscinski de Polonia (1996), el Premio Herder de Austria (1999), el Premio Nacional del Círculo de Críticos de Estados Unidos (2006), el Premio Médicis de Ensayo en Francia (2013) y el Premio de la Paz de los libreros alemanes (2013). Es oficial de la orden de las Artes y las Letras de la República Francesa y doctora honoris causa por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

See less