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Los Muchachos de Zinc / Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexievich (Hardback, 2016)

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Una obra maestra con una perspectiva unica y desgarradora sobre la guerra de Afganistan, de la Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015, Svetlana Alexievich, la voz de los sin voz. Entre 1979 y 1989 un millon de tropas sovieticas combatieron en una guerra devastadora en Afganistan que provoco mas de 50.000 bajas y acabo con la juventud y la humanidad de varias decenas de miles de soldados mas. Los muertos sovieticos volvian a casa en ataudes de zinc sellados mientras el estado recocia ni la mera existencia del conflicto. Los muchachos de zinc genero una inmensa polemica y mucha indignacion cuando fue publicada originalmente en la URSS: las criticas acusaron a su autora de haber escrito un texto fantasioso lle de injurias y de ser parte de un coro histerico de ataques maligs. En el libro, Svetlana Alexievich presenta el testimonio candido y emocionante de los oficiales y los soldados rasos, de las enfermeras y las prostitutas, las madres, los hijos y las hijas que describen la guerra y sus duraderos efectos. El resultado es una historia turbadora por su brutalidad y reveladora en su parecido a la experiencia estadounidense en Vietnam y mas tarde en Irak y el mismo Afganistan. Svetlana Alexievich expone la verdad de la guerra afga-sovietica: la belleza del pais y los brutales abusos del ejercito, las muertes y las mutilaciones, la profusion de productos occidentales, las vidas humilladas y destrozadas de los veteras. Los muchachos de zinc ofrece una perspectiva unica, desgarradora e ilvidable sobre la realidad de la guerra. Resenas: Por su obra polifonica, un monumento al sufrimiento y al coraje en nuestro tiempo.Academia Sueca, fallo del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015 La voz de Alexievich es mucho mas que la suma de las voces que recoge, consiguiendo que la guerra sea tan omnipresente y tan personal, tan real, como cualquier relato de ficcion lo logro de cualquier otra guerra.Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker Durante los ultimos treinta o cuarenta as, Alexievich se ha dedicado a retratar al individuo sovietico y post sovietico, pero su obra es realmente una historia de los acontecimientos. Es una historia de las emociones, lo que s ofrece es un mundo emocional, una historia del alma.Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the Nobel Prize: For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time. ?Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties?and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR?it was called by reviewers there a slanderous piece of fantasy and part of a hysterical chorus of malign attacks ?Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term Zinky Boys ), while the state denied the very existence of the conflict. Svetlana Alexievich brings us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan War: the beauty of the country and the savage Army bullying, the killing and the mutilation, the profusion of Western goods, the shame and shattered lives of returned veterans. Zinky Boys offers a unique, harrowing, and unforgettably powerful insight into the realities of war.

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Publisher
Debate
ISBN-10
8499926290
ISBN-13
9788499926292
eBay Product ID (ePID)
223602338

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Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
Spanish
Topic
Military History
Author
Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexievich

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Date of Publication
26/07/2016
Country of Publication
United States

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