- Published: 18 May 2017
- ISBN: 9780241264119
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $24.99
Boys In Zinc

















- Published: 18 May 2017
- ISBN: 9780241264119
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $24.99
Alexievich serves no ideology, only an ideal: to listen closely enough to the ordinary voices of her time to orchestrate them into extraordinary books
Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker
What Alexievich is doing is giving voice to the voiceless, exposing not only stories we wouldn't otherwise hear but individuals as well
David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
A masterpiece of reportage
New York Review of Books
Alexievich has become one of my heroes
Atul Gawande
Superbly translated... Alexievich's choice of truth as hero is the right one for the age of Putin and Trump
Giles Whittell, The Times
Alexievich is like a doctor probing the scar tissue of a traumatised nation
Guy Chazan, Financial Times
The least well-known wonderful writer I've ever come across
Jenni Murray, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour
The Belarusian writer has spent decades in listening mode. Alexievich put in thousands of hours with her tape recorder across the lands of the former Soviet Union, collecting and collating stories from ordinary people. She wove those tales into elegant books of such power and insight, that in 2015 she received the Nobel prize for literature
Shaun Walker, Guardian
Alexievich's "documentary novels" are crafted and edited with a reporter's cool eye for detail and a poet's ear for the intricate rhythms of human speech. Reading them is like eavesdropping on a confessional. This is history at its rawest and most uncomfortably intimate
Andrew Dickson, Evening Standard
Alexievich's artistry has raised oral history to a totally different dimension
Antony Beevor
As shattering and addictive as Chernobyl Prayer, this is a polyphonic tour de force that shines a light on war, the plight of heroes, and why post-Soviet Russia is as it is
Kapka Kassabova, Herald Scotland