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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich
Anguished testimonies of children who survived the nazi onslaught on the USSR
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
PUBLISHED in 1985 in the Soviet Union, this first English edition of Svetlana Alexievich’s book is a very painful reminder of the affects of war.
In the 1970s, she started interviewing the generation of children who had lived through WWII and who had carried that trauma with them as adults.
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