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Translator: Zurab Kutateladze
Editor: Nino Dekanoidze, Maya Kudava
Year of publication: 2024
Number of pages: 438
ISBN: 9789941317361
Publishing house: Intelligence
The Zinky Boys is the third book in the Voices of Utopia series by 2015 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian writer banned by the Lukashenko regime. The narrators of the book - war veterans, mothers, widows, nurses... - tell us the truth about the war in Afghanistan (1979-1989), which the Soviet government hid from its own people for years.
Svetlana Aleksievich brings to the reader the bare emotions of those who left Afghanistan, and that is why the translation preserves both intonations and unordered, fragmented impressions and assessments of the war, which left a heavy mark on the lives of each character.
The book also includes minutes from court proceedings (1992-1994), which took place in Belarus after the publication of "Zink Boys". At the trials, the authoritarian regime brought out its own real characters against the writer.
As for the title of the book: although the Georgian equivalent of the chemical element Zincum is zinc, we chose to leave the original "zinc" in the title of the book, because this word established in the speech of the people accurately reflects the tragedy of the era - it was under this name that the coffins from Afghanistan, in which a distinguished Georgian The boys were engrossed.
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