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Last Witnesses

Unchildlike Stories

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Last Witnesses

Von: Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
Gesprochen von: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, read by Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson and Allen Lewis Rickman.

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 Soviet Union 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.

 Kinderforschung Militär Russland Sozialwissenschaften
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Svetlana Alexievich is quite simply the greatest practitioner of oral history ever known. She is unique (Antony Beevor)
D.H. Lawrence wrote that Hamlet's soliloquies are as deep as the soul of man can go. The opposite of soliloquies, Svetlana Alexievich's books go as deep as the soul of woman can go. And now she investigates the soul in the agonized process of historical formation (Geoff Dyer)
Alexievich serves no ideology, only an ideal: to listen closely enough to the ordinary voices of her time to orchestrate them into extraordinary books (Philip Gourevitch)
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An uninterrupted sequence of horrors. The book consists of short descriptions of individual experiences. Most of the accounts come from Belarus. Many of them concentrate on the perception of the beginning of the war. There is little about life after the war or how the survivors dealt with their childhood experiences. One should have some background knowledge about the Great Patriotic War in order to be able to put the events into context. Unfortunately, the childhood stories are left completely uncommented.

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