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The Unwomanly Face of War — Svetlana Alexievich

The Unwomanly Face of War (1985) is documentary prose by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. The voices of women who lived through World War II.

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The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's debut book, collecting testimonies of Soviet women who fought in WWII. This is not a triumphal history of war, but a story of suffering, daily life, and humanity at the front.

Alexievich created a unique genre of "novel of voices" that would later earn her the Nobel Prize (2015). The Unwomanly Face of War became one of the most important books about war in the 20th century and remains a staggering humanistic document.

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AuthorSvetlana Alexievich

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