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		Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

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		World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Russian.
		World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female.
		Women and war -- Soviet Union.
		Women Nobel Prize winners.
		Nobel Prize winners.

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The unwomanly face of war : an oral history of women in World War II / Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

by Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

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Random House, 2017.

Women soldiers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Soviet Union.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Russian.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female.

Women and war -- Soviet Union.

Women Nobel Prize winners.

Nobel Prize winners.

9780399588723 (hc.)

xliii, 331 p. ; 24 cm.

First published in Russian in 1985.

"Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, a collection of stories of women's experiences in World War II, both on the front lines, on the home front, and in occupied territories. Alexievich gives voice to women whose stories are lost in the official narratives, creating a powerful alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals. Collectively, these women's voices provide a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of the war. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, they praised her "polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time," and cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre."--Provided by publisher.

"Svetlana Alexievich was born on May 31, 1948 in the Ukrainian town of Ivano-Frankovsk into the family of a serviceman. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. In 1983 she completed her book The Unwomanly Face of War. For two years it was sitting at a publishing house but was not published. Alexievich was accused of pacifism, naturalism and de-glorification of the heroic Soviet woman. Such accusations could have quite serious consequences in those days. All the more so since already after her first book I've Left My Village (monologues of people who abandoned their native parts), she has already had a reputation of being a dissident journalist with anti-Soviet sentiments. On order of the Belarusian Central Committee of the Communist Party Alexiyevich's already completed book was destroyed and she was accused of anti-Communist and anti-government views. But new times came with Mikhail Gorbachev's ascent to power and the start of perestroika. In 1985 The Unwomanly Face of War came out simultaneously in Minsk and in Moscow."--From nobelprize.org website.

Svetlana Alexievich is the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature.

Pevear, Richard, 1943-

Volokhonsky, Larissa.

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