Categories: European History Social & Cultural History World War 2 Books Age Groups: Children


Last Witnesses Unchildlike Stories - Penguin Modern Classics
Svetlana Aleksievich (author), Richard Pevear (translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)
Paperback (05 Nov 2020)


Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph

Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth - Caroline Moorehead, Guardian

Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich

What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. With remarkable care and empathy, Alexievich gives voice to those whose stories are lost in the official narratives, uncovering a powerful, hidden history of one of the most important events of the twentieth century.Published to great acclaim in the USSR in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war - and an extraordinary chronicle of the Russian soul.


Product details

Format Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 18mm | 236g
Publication date 05 Nov 2020
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN13 9780141983561
Bestsellers rank 15,300