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Indlæser... Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan Waraf Svetlana Alexievich
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. 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 más de 50.000 bajas y acabó con la juventud y la humanidad de varias decenas de miles de soldados más. Los muertos soviéticos volvían a casa en ataúdes de zinc sellados mientras el estado no reconocía ni la mera existencia del conflicto. Los muchachos de zinc generó una inmensa polémica y mucha indignación cuando fue publicada originalmente en la URSS: las críticas acusaron a su autora de haber escrito un «texto fantasioso lleno de injurias» y de ser parte de «un coro histérico de ataques malignos». En el libro, Svetlana Alexiévich presenta el testimonio cándido y emocionante de los oficiales y los soldados rasos, de las enfermeras y las prostitutas, las madres, los hijos y las hijas que describen la guerra y sus duraderos efectos. El resultado es una historia turbadora por su brutalidad y reveladora en su parecido a la experiencia estadounidense en Vietnam y más tarde en Irak y el mismo Afganistán. Svetlana Alexievich expone la verdad de la guerra afgano-soviética: la belleza del país y los brutales abusos del ejército, las muertes y las mutilaciones, la profusión de productos occidentales, las vidas humilladas y destrozadas de los veteranos. Los muchachos de zinc ofrece una perspectiva única, desgarradora e inolvidable sobre la realidad de la guerra. Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War. Svetlana Alexievich.1990. The Soviet Union fought a pointless war in Afghanistan form 1979 to 1989, and suffered 50.000 casualties. This war has been called Russia’s Vietnam. Alexievich, a Nobel Prize winner interviews officers, mothers, recruits, doctors, nurses and others and retells their stories of the horrors of war, the lies of the government, and the torment of the veterans. It is just as affecting as her book, Voices from Chernobyl. A timely book considering what Russia is doing in Ukraine now. Absolutely devastating. Tilhører Forlagsserien
From 1979 to 1989, a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties-- and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. In Zinky Boys journalist Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the tragic history of the Afghanistan War. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam-- a resemblance that Larry Heinemann describes movingly in his introduction to the book, providing American readers with an often uncomfortably intimate connection to a war that may have seemed very remote to us. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term "Zinky Boys"), while the State denied the very existence of the conflict; even today the radically altered Soviet society continues to reject the memory of the "Soviet Vietnam." Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR-- it was called by reviewers there a "slanderous piece of fantasy" and part of a "hysterical chorus of malign attacks"--Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. Svetlana Alexievich has snatched from the memory hole the truth of the Afghanistan War-- the beauty of the country and the savage Army bullying, the killing and the mutilation, the profusion of Western goods, the shame and shattered lives of returned veterans. Zinky Boys offers a unique, harrowing, and unforgettably powerful insight into the realities of war and the turbulence of Soviet life today. No library descriptions found. |
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[a:Svetlana Alexievich|7728207|Svetlana Alexievich|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1473846978p2/7728207.jpg] constructs a complete picture of what it was like on the ground, the horror, the cruelty, the atrocities on both sides. This collection of interviews gives a unique insight into the feelings, opinions and demons of officers, privates, nurses, doctors, mothers and fathers who lived through this 10 year conflict. Alexievich's novel style, earning her the Nobel prize in literature, results in a comprehensive picture of not only the perspective of those that were there, but that of the Russian government propaganda apparatus and the ill-informed Russian public as a whole. ( )