Los muchachos de zinc / Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Spanish Edition)

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Los muchachos de zinc / Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Spanish Edition)
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Una obra maestra con una perspectiva única y desgarradora sobre la guerra de Afganistán, de la Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015, Svetlana Alexiévich, «la voz de los sin voz».


Entre 1979 y 1989 un millón de tropas soviéticas combatieron en una guerra devastadora en Afganistán que provocó más de 50.000 bajas y acabó con la juventud y la humanidad de varias decenas de miles de soldados más. Los muertos soviéticos volvían a casa en ataúdes de zinc sellados mientras el estado no reconocía ni la mera existencia del conflicto.

Los muchachos de zinc generó una inmensa polémica y mucha indignación cuando fue publicada originalmente en la URSS: las críticas acusaron a su autora de haber escrito un «texto fantasioso lleno de injurias» y de ser parte de «un coro histérico de ataques malignos». En el libro, Svetlana Alexiévich presenta el testimonio cándido y emocionante de los oficiales y los soldados rasos, de las enfermeras y las prostitutas, las madres, los hijos y las hijas que describen la guerra y sus duraderos efectos. El resultado es una historia turbadora por su brutalidad y reveladora en su parecido a la experiencia estadounidense en Vietnam y más tarde en Irak y el mismo Afganistán.

Svetlana Alexievich expone la verdad de la guerra afgano-soviética: la belleza del país y los brutales abusos del ejército, las muertes y las mutilaciones, la profusión de productos occidentales, las vidas humilladas y destrozadas de los veteranos. Los muchachos de zinc ofrece una perspectiva única, desgarradora e inolvidable sobre la realidad de la guerra.

Reseñas:
«Por su obra polifónica, un monumento al sufrimiento y al coraje en nuestro tiempo.»
Academia Sueca, fallo del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015

«La voz de Alexiévich es mucho más que la suma de las voces que recoge, consiguiendo que la guerra sea tan omnipresente y tan personal, tan real, como cualquier relato de ficción no lo logró de cualquier otra guerra.»
Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker

«Durante los últimos treinta o cuarenta años, Alexiévich se ha dedicado a retratar al individuo soviético y post soviético, pero su obra no es realmente una historia de los acontecimientos. Es una historia de las emociones, lo que nos ofrece es un mundo emocional, una historia del alma.»
Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Winner of the Nobel Prize: “For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” ?Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation

Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties?and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR?it was called by reviewers there a “slanderous piece of fantasy” and part of a “hysterical chorus of malign attacks”?Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects.

What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term “Zinky Boys”), while the state denied the very existence of the conflict. Svetlana Alexievich brings us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan War: the beauty of the country and the savage Army bullying, the killing and the mutilation, the profusion of Western goods, the shame and shattered lives of returned veterans. Zinky Boys offers a unique, harrowing, and unforgettably powerful insight into the realities of war.

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