Boys in Zinc

Category	Fiction
ISBN	9780241264119
Author	Svetlana Alexievich
Publishing house	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Pages	304

Weaving together their stories, Svetlana Alexievich shows us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan conflict: the killing and the beauty of small everyday moments, the shame of returned veterans, the worries of all those left behind. When it was first published in the USSR in 1991, Boys in Zinc sparked huge controversy for its unflinching, harrowing insight into the realities of war.