[Good book review] Zinc boys – Existing sadness has hundreds of reflections

Svetlana Alexievich, the first Belarusian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005, is one of the rare writers to be put on trial for what she wrote.

The Zinc Boys is a collection of witnesses, including direct participants and families of soldiers, of the Soviet-Afghan war that lasted more than a decade from 1978 to 1989. Even during and after the war.

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Most of them believe and imagine romantic things waiting for them ahead, then in just a few weeks, all are disillusioned and all become other people.

Kurt Vonnegut in his excellent anti-war work, Slaughterhouse No. 5, talks about the children’s crusade, the boys fresh out of childhood who were pushed into the army.

Artillery privates, company medical sergeants, female officers, private drivers, private machine gunners… appear in the flesh through their own accounts of the war in The Zinc Boys.

Artillery privates, company medical sergeants, female officers, private drivers, private machine gunners… appear in the flesh through their own accounts of the war in The Zinc Boys.

Artillery privates, company medical sergeants, female officers, private drivers, private machine gunners… appear in the flesh through their own accounts of the war in The Zinc Boys.

Artillery privates, company medical sergeants, female officers, private drivers, private machine gunners… appear in the flesh through their own accounts of the war in The Zinc Boys.

Alexievich’s greatest creative idea was documentary literature, a method she had sought for a long time to allow her to get as close as possible to real life.