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Details... Brad Watson, Writer - Marfa, Spring 2006

 
 

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Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich, born in 1948 in Belarus, is the author of War Doesn’t Have a Woman’s Face which brought official accusations of “pacifism and an unheroic portrayal of the Soviet woman” and subsequent persecution.

With Perestroika came the lifting of the ban on her book, The Boys of Zinc,…


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