Svetlana Alexievich, Author, Robin Whitby, Translator, Julia Whitby, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-393-03415-8
The 1979-1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan, as Russian author Alexievich remarks in this oral history, wrenched boys from their daily life of school or college, music and discos, and hurled them into a hell of filth. She conveys that hell here through...
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Svetlana Alexievich, trans. from the Russian by Bela Shayevich. Random, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-399-58880-8
Alexievich (Voices from Chernobyl), a Ukrainian-born Belarusian writer and winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature, documents the last days of the Soviet Union and the transition to capitalism in a soul-wrenching “oral history” that reveals...
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Svetlana Alexievich, trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Random House, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-58872-3
“I write not about war, but about human beings in war,” explains Nobel-laureate Alexievich (Secondhand Time) in this lyrical, elegant volume. “I write not the history of war, but the history of feelings. I am a historian of the soul.” Originally...
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Svetlana Alexievich, trans. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, read by Julia Emelin and Yelena Shmulenson. Random House , Audio, unabridged, digital download, 14.5 hrs., $29.50 ISBN 978-1-5247-0848-1
Speaking with Slavic accents, narrators Emelin and Shmulenson divvy up the many stories of Soviet women serving in the military and resistance movements of World War II in the audio edition of this English translation of Nobel Prize–winner...
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Svetlana Alexievich, Author, Keith Gessen, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Keith Gessen. Dalkey Archive $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56478-401-8
A chorus of fatalism, stoic bravery and black, black humor is sounded in this haunting oral history of the 1986 nuclear reactor catastrophe in what is now northeastern Ukraine. Russian journalist Alexievich records a wide array of voices: a woman...
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Svetlana Alexievich, trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Random, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-58875-4
In this moving work of oral history, originally published in 1985 and appearing in English for the first time, Nobel-winning journalist Alexievich collages together WWII survivors’ accounts. The book brings together engrossing and frequently graphic
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