Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

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Svetlana Alexievich with Julia Whitby, Robin Whitby, Larry Heinemann.

197 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015- A new translation based on the updated text -From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of...

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emotional 78%
dark 73%
sad 73%
reflective 60%
informative 57%
challenging 42%
tense 21%
adventurous 2%
inspiring 2%

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slow 31%
fast 9%

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