This has to be the best contemporary book I am yet to read. Absolutely

I have it still in my shelf waiting. Thanks for reminding tho. Thought about reading David Grossman next but might switch to Alexievich cause of your post.

I became aware of it after it was short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize (formerly the Samuel johnson prize). I intend to buy a copy of it soon and am very excited about it.

>an on-topic post about a book that isn't spoonfed to college kids as part of their curriculum.

I don't mean this in a bad way...but are you new here?

if so, please stay

what was your favourite part of the book?

>>9596257
>what was your favourite part of the book?

I can't really come up with a specific part, but the deep and profound suffering which was inflicted to entire populations of the Soviet Union is nothing like which has ever happened. What I really loved was the positivity which the people who lived through Socialism had. Even when starving, exploited and silenced they looked to the future. It's a triumph of the human spirit... or something along those lines.

>>9596222
i agree it's amazing.
it really makes you feel the tragedy of the socialist idea and its failing
the stories, especially those from the stalinist era, are often so horrific that you can barely comprehend the amount of suffering. one thing that stuck in my mind is how one of the old women, i think it was the one who grew up in a camp for families of "enemies of the people", said something along the lines of "now all we are is old people with horrible memories that nobody wants to hear about". it really struck me how pointless all of the suffering was and how alienated older russians must feel from their country today.
i read the book while traveling through russia and when i saw that there is a shopping mall in irkutsk called the komso-mall, i really understood the betrayal that communists must have felt when their idea collapsed.

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>>9596613
is this a plebbit infestation? We're simply against women here

>>9596617
not one person had a bad thing to say about Voices from Chernobyl when she won, only that the very fact of a woman winning was a concession to leftists. I doubt you would remember this though.

And Voices is evocative of underground by murakami, a fantastic work of narrative non-fiction

>>9596662
it wouldn't have been published if she'd been a white man, much less win an oscar

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>>9596613
>the everyone suffered oh it's another shoah clap trap

trash

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>>9596714
abhorrent posts