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- Published: 2 July 2019
- ISBN: 9780241429785
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $27.99
Last Witnesses
Unchildlike Stories
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- Published: 2 July 2019
- ISBN: 9780241429785
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $27.99
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
Svetlana Alexievich is quite simply the greatest practitioner of oral history ever known. She is unique
Antony Beevor
D.H. Lawrence wrote that Hamlet's soliloquies are as deep as the soul of man can go. The opposite of soliloquies, Svetlana Alexievich's books go as deep as the soul of woman can go. And now she investigates the soul in the agonized process of historical formation
Geoff Dyer