Zinc Boys - Svetlana Alexievich
In her book Zinc Boys she documented the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan between the years 1979 and 1985. She collected in it interviews with soldiers returning from the war, or with mothers and wives of soldiers who were killed there, and their bodies were returned in zinc coffins. The result of the war was thousands of dead, disabled, and missing, which prompted Svetlana to raise sensitive questions about the war, who are we? Why did we do that? And why did this happen to us? And why did we believe all of that? Svetlana was prosecuted because of publishing this book, and part of the documents related to the trial were added in the Arabic translation.
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