Svetlana Alexievich: Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) [2020] paperback Condition:New depressing

depressing

There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world

and flips back to the dreadful year-and-a-half in Leningrad which has informed her life ever since

'Brilliantly funny' - Abi Elphinstone on You Can't Take an Elephant on Holiday

Svetlana Alexievich: Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) [2020] paperback Condition:New depressingSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph 'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' Caroline Moorehead, Guardian Extraordinary 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 What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana