Svetlana Alexievich: 10 books

Book cover of Secondhand Time

Secondhand Time

The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature **NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND *PUBLISHERS WEEKLY...
Book cover of The Unwomanly Face of War

The Unwomanly Face of War

An Oral History of Women in World War II

by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Guardian • NPR • The Economist • Milwaukee...
Book cover of Los muchachos de zinc

Los muchachos de zinc

Voces soviéticas de la guerra de Afganistán

by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 10, 2016

Una obra maestra con una perspectiva única y desgarradora sobre la guerra de Afganistán, de la Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015, Svetlana Alexiévich, «la voz de los sin voz». Entre 1979 y 1989 un millón de tropas soviéticas combatieron en una guerra devastadora en Afganistán que provocó...
Book cover of In Search of the Free Individual

In Search of the Free Individual

The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul

by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018

"I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In poetic language, Alexievich traces the origins of...
Book cover of Voices from Chernobyl
by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident...
Book cover of La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer
by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2015

La Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015 Svetlana Alexiévich, «la voz de los sin voz», muestra en esta obra maestra una perspectiva de la guerra ignorada hasta el momento: la de las mujeres que combatieron en la segunda guerra mundial. Casi un millón de mujeres combatió en las filas del Ejército...
Book cover of Últimos testigos

Últimos testigos

Los niños de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 8, 2016

De la Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015, una obra maestra inédita hasta ahora que recoge el recuerdo de los niños que sobrevivieron a la segunda guerra mundial. Un tema de gran interés desde una perspectiva totalmente distinta. La Segunda Guerra Mundial dejó casi trece millones de niños...
Book cover of Voces de Chernóbil

Voces de Chernóbil

Crónica del futuro

by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 8, 2015

La escritora bielorrusa Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015 da voz a aquellas personas que sobrevivieron al desastre de Chernóbil y que fueron silenciadas y olvidadas por su propio gobierno. Este libro les da la oportunidad de contar su historia. Chernóbil, 1986. «Cierra las ventanillas y acuéstate....
Book cover of Deberíais crecer, niñas... estáis muy verdes aún
by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2019

La ganadora del Premio Nobel de literatura, Svetlana Alexiévich, le da vida a las numerosas voces de aquellas mujeres silenciadas por la guerra. Deberíais crecer, niñas... Estáis muy verdes aún... Es uno de los fragmentos del ensayo La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer: un corpus formado...
Book cover of Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock, Paper, Scissors

And Other Stories

by Maxim Osipov, Svetlana Alexievich
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019

The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story. Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he...
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