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A review by viktoriya
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexiévich
4.0
ARC provided by NetGalley.
This is powerful, heartbreaking, very sad, and strangely enough, uplifting. Both of my parents were children of war. Mom was born in July 1941 and she doesn't remember much, but she remembers hunger, constant hunger. Dad was born in 1938 and he lived on a border of USSR (his father was in the military and stationed on a border). My dad remembers running with his older brothers and their mom (my grandma) from the airplanes and their machine guns. My grandma actually kept a skirt she wore that day (it was a blue flowing maxi skirt that she made earlier that year) and it had multiple bullet holes in it. I decided to read this book because of them, to understand what their experience might have been like. Now, all I want to do is to hug and hold them...
This is powerful, heartbreaking, very sad, and strangely enough, uplifting. Both of my parents were children of war. Mom was born in July 1941 and she doesn't remember much, but she remembers hunger, constant hunger. Dad was born in 1938 and he lived on a border of USSR (his father was in the military and stationed on a border). My dad remembers running with his older brothers and their mom (my grandma) from the airplanes and their machine guns. My grandma actually kept a skirt she wore that day (it was a blue flowing maxi skirt that she made earlier that year) and it had multiple bullet holes in it. I decided to read this book because of them, to understand what their experience might have been like. Now, all I want to do is to hug and hold them...