From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in 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 pre...
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in 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.
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of Wa...
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Zinky Boys (1990), Voices from Chernobyl (1997), and Secondhand Time (2013). She has won many international awards, including the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
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0 有用 Maat 2025-08-20 22:00:14 浙江
读一会就要分心一下干点别的，不然眼泪就掉下来了。试想苏联还只是受害的少数，被夺去百万生命的阿富汗人民，又该是怎样的惨状啊……
0 有用 Wenze 2016-11-24 08:41:32
每一个字都是一滴血。
2 有用 晓颖 2019-02-24 21:45:48
诺贝尔文学奖作家的代表作之一，以口述形式记录了各色各样亲历了苏联入侵阿富汗十年战争的人们：军人，护士，心碎的母亲。书名意指当时阵亡的苏联士兵装在封死的锌皮棺材中，而那些士兵大多只是十八九岁的孩子。战争的荒唐残酷，军队的腐败混乱，种种情境如同人间地狱，而这种人间地狱，二十多年来每天都在这个世界上演，如今更是愈演愈烈。我对国际政治所知有限，不敢妄言，也反感任何简单粗暴的断言。愿第三次世界战争永远不来，... 诺贝尔文学奖作家的代表作之一，以口述形式记录了各色各样亲历了苏联入侵阿富汗十年战争的人们：军人，护士，心碎的母亲。书名意指当时阵亡的苏联士兵装在封死的锌皮棺材中，而那些士兵大多只是十八九岁的孩子。战争的荒唐残酷，军队的腐败混乱，种种情境如同人间地狱，而这种人间地狱，二十多年来每天都在这个世界上演，如今更是愈演愈烈。我对国际政治所知有限，不敢妄言，也反感任何简单粗暴的断言。愿第三次世界战争永远不来，愿人间再无任何战争。 (展开)
0 有用 大姜是胖橘呀 2022-08-24 23:59:26 浙江
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