Description: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for work that stands as "a monument to suffering and courage in our time" (Swedish Academy).
Brief description: Svetlana Alexievich, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a journalist and author. She lives in Minsk, Belarus.
Review Quotes: Alexievich serves no ideology, only an ideal: to listen closely enough to the ordinary voices of her time to orchestrate them into extraordinary books.--Philip Gourevitch "New Yorker"