Alexievich’s Zinky Boys reviewed – Killing in the name of the Soviet Union
In honour of Svetlana Alexievich’s awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015, I unearthed my first-impression review written four years ago of Zinky Boys, a masterpiece of non-fiction writing. I just finished reading Zinky Boys and I don’t feel very well. The stories Alexievich reports are like a fist in the stomach, every single …