
The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich
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Detalhes do Produto
- Editora: Random House
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- Ano: 2018
- ISBN: 9780399588747
- Número de páginas: 384
- Capa: Brochada
- Subtitulo: An Oral History of Women in World War II
Sinopse
For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.”
In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten. …
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