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Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Last Witnesses (Adapted for Young Adults) by Svetlana Alexievich
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A powerful portrait of the personal consequences of war as seen through the innocent eyes of children, from a Nobel Prize-winning writer. Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich delves into the traumatic memories of children who were separated from their parents during World War II--most of them ...Show more
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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. ...Show more
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich I finished first grade in May of 41, and my parents took me for the summer to the Pioneer camp. I came there, went for a swim once, and two days la ...Show more
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secon ...Show more
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