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Kriget har inget kvinnligt ansikte by Svetlana Alexiévich

shnapsi's review against another edition

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dark emotional slow-paced

5.0

basianat's review against another edition

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4.0

Я согласна, что это хорошая книга, что это важная книга, что это отличная идея показать войну глазами женщин и описать, как они чувствовали себя в разные её моменты. Но ... 1) в этой мозаике слишком много элементов, слишком много историй, трудно хотя бы часть из них запомнить 2) читать эти воспоминания, эти переживания в 2024 году труднее и непонятнее. Они задавали себе такие вопросы: *Зачем они (немцы) пришли на нашу землю?
*Нам трудно было понять, откуда их ненависть? Наша понятна. А их? - Какие ответы на их вопросы сегодня? Местами читать эту книгу невыносимо тежело, по разным причинам. Некоторые картинки врыются в память, некоторые хотелось бы быстро забыть ..

sandrarn's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

lolapasteque's review against another edition

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3.0

Svetlana Alexievitch, prix Nobel 2015... Comme je n'avais pas lu la quatrième de couverture, et que j'avais simplement feuilleté le livre, je m'attendais à un roman. Grande surprise, le livre est un recueil de témoignages de femmes qui ont fait la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Alexievitch écrit très bien, et écrit peut-être trop. En effet, elle réécrit même tous les témoignages. Et je trouve ça dommage. En les réécrivant, elle se contredit: lorsqu'elle parle de la vérité, l'histoire refoulée, l'histoire de la réalité de la guerre qu'elle s'efforce de trouver à travers les témoignages. Ça m'a déçue... C'est pourquoi je ne mets que trois étoiles.

littleredwinter's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

In the US, soldiers from WWII are lauded as heroes. We tend to view the western front of WWII as being the only front and forget about the men and especially women who fought for the Soviet Union on the eastern front. Further, WWII is seen by Americans even those who condemn other wars as uniquely moral and justified because we were fighting Nazis. What is not discussed is how even a war waged to end a genocide is bloody and brutal. Svetlana Alexievich does not censor the women she interviewed and they do not hold back. The horror of war rears its ugly head in plain view as these women describe in visceral detail exactly what they went through, how they felt about it then, and how they feel about it decades later now that they have been forced to live with it. This book is a thoughtful intersectional feminist view of war from the perspective of women who lived through that and relive it to this day. An especially important read with how few of them are left. I cannot recommend this enough. It will make you stop and carefully consider everything you learned in school and everything you believed about WWII. 

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zivi's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

hidingzeus's review against another edition

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slow-paced

4.5

It's hard to think of rating this when it really is just a bunch of women's stories collected together.  This was heart-wrenching.  I say women.  Some of these 'women' were no older than 15!  They were so young, they grew taller during the war!

linda101's review against another edition

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informative sad tense slow-paced

3.0

minguyen's review against another edition

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4.0

Sách là một quyển hồi ký nên tính nghệ thuật không quá cao, chủ yếu thể hiện tính hiện thực. Những chương đầu bị lan man, vụn vặt không hấp dẫn lắm, nhưng 3 chương cuối thực sự làm mình khóc rất nhiều. Mỗi lời tâm sự đều có thể phát triển thành một historical fiction. 4.5/5 sao

seph5040's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25


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