This is collage book (kind of, maybe) from the Belorussian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. This is the first of her works I’ve read, but I think it’s more or less representative of the kinds of work she does across different subject fields. In this book, she is collecting and editing small scenes of witness of WWII (The Great Patriotic War) by adults in the middle age, remembering their experiences from when they were children. The main range of these pieces are 1-3 pages, but there’s […]