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vaum's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Gun violence, Death of parent, Antisemitism, Death, and Child death
merelvanderschoot's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
5.0
🫶The first dead I saw was a horse… then a woman… that surprised me, my idea was that only men were killed in war.
🫶Grandma prayed, she asked that my soul come back.
🫶I had the feeling that it even hurt the earth when they walked.
🫶Ah my cottage. I was a young girl in it.
🫶What have you been doing here? … Looking for papa.
🫶I’ll open the window at night. Give the pages to the wind.
🫶And where is his? Where is he hiding?
🫶I had forgotten how people sang.
🫶No wonder they say the Russian people die twice: Once for the motherland, the second time from listening to Gipsy songs.
🫶If a child is from god, there is no need to teach him, he’ll learn on his own.
🫶We are the last witnesses. Our time is ending. We must speak… Our words will be the last.
🫶Grandma prayed, she asked that my soul come back.
🫶I had the feeling that it even hurt the earth when they walked.
🫶Ah my cottage. I was a young girl in it.
🫶What have you been doing here? … Looking for papa.
🫶I’ll open the window at night. Give the pages to the wind.
🫶And where is his? Where is he hiding?
🫶I had forgotten how people sang.
🫶No wonder they say the Russian people die twice: Once for the motherland, the second time from listening to Gipsy songs.
🫶If a child is from god, there is no need to teach him, he’ll learn on his own.
🫶We are the last witnesses. Our time is ending. We must speak… Our words will be the last.
guuran62's review against another edition
4.0
https://boklaadan.wordpress.com/2016/05/06/de-sista-vittnena/
pelle_kb's review against another edition
5.0
Chyba na razie mam dość reportaży... Ten to była bagienna mieszanka rozpaczy, makabry, grozy, smutku i braku nadziei. Istna MASAKRA. Jeżeli ten Czarnobyl Swietłany jest jeszcze gorszy, to ja nie wiem.
ellephuonglinhnguyen's review against another edition
5.0
Dostoevsky once posed a question: can we justify our world, our happiness, and even eternal harmony, if in its name, to strengthen its foundation, at least one little tear of an innocent child will be spilled? And he himself answered: this tear will not justify any progress, any revolution. Any war. It will always outweigh them.
Just one little tear...
Just one little tear...
iuliacurtui's review against another edition
5.0
Tulburatoare pana in strafundul sufletului.
Acesta este genul de carte care te face, pe de o parte, sa te ingrozesti de firea umana, asa cum e in faza sa cea mai degradanta, a uciderii semenului, a lipsei de mila si a dorintei de distrugere. Pe de alta parte, te face sa admiri puterea firii omenensti, care trece prin experiente nedrepte la o varsta care ar trebui sa fie dedicata veseliei, si totusi continua sa traiasca, sa se ridice din nefericire si sa treaca peste dezastru.
Svetlana Alexievich creaza o lume a sentimentelor. De multe ori a trebuit sa fac pauze, de cateva minute, sau chiar de zile in sir, in care sa imi pot reveni in urma socului inoculat de intamplarile amintite de copiii supravietuitori. Efectul acestei calatorii prin amintirile de razboi a fost cu siguranta unul constructiv si benefic: am invatat recunostinta pentru tot ce am in jur, vazand lipsurile prin care au trecut fiintele omenesti napadite de razboi.
E o carte esentiala pentru a intelege efectele imediate ale razboiului, care se revarsa peste toate fiintele, barbati, femei, copiii cei mai fragezi, animale.
Acesta este genul de carte care te face, pe de o parte, sa te ingrozesti de firea umana, asa cum e in faza sa cea mai degradanta, a uciderii semenului, a lipsei de mila si a dorintei de distrugere. Pe de alta parte, te face sa admiri puterea firii omenensti, care trece prin experiente nedrepte la o varsta care ar trebui sa fie dedicata veseliei, si totusi continua sa traiasca, sa se ridice din nefericire si sa treaca peste dezastru.
Svetlana Alexievich creaza o lume a sentimentelor. De multe ori a trebuit sa fac pauze, de cateva minute, sau chiar de zile in sir, in care sa imi pot reveni in urma socului inoculat de intamplarile amintite de copiii supravietuitori. Efectul acestei calatorii prin amintirile de razboi a fost cu siguranta unul constructiv si benefic: am invatat recunostinta pentru tot ce am in jur, vazand lipsurile prin care au trecut fiintele omenesti napadite de razboi.
E o carte esentiala pentru a intelege efectele imediate ale razboiului, care se revarsa peste toate fiintele, barbati, femei, copiii cei mai fragezi, animale.