About the Book: The Unwomanly Face of War
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women
in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in
Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post-The Guardian-NPR-The Economist-Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel-Kirkus Reviews 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