From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an Oral History of children\'s experiences in World War II across Europe and Russia--in the vein of The Unwomanly Face of War and Secondhand Time For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. a History of t. . .
When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre," describing her work as "a History of emotions .
From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an Oral History of children\'s experiences in World War II across Europe and Russia--in the vein of The Unwomanly Face of War and Secondhand Time For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century