Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich University of Toronto Press A story of intelligence gathering

A story of intelligence gathering

towards repletion

how one man was left with the task of memorialising his fellow artists after their deaths

he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey

Legend has it that she was Stalin's favourite pianist

Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich University of Toronto Press A story of intelligence gatheringExtraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich. What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the