domingo, 26 de agosto de 2018

Reseña: "La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer" de Svetlana Alexievich

Autora: Svetlana Alexiévich
Editorial: Debate
Año: 2015
Páginas: 368
IBSN-13: 9788499925752
Precio: 20.8€ (Tapa blanda)
Nota: 10/10

SINOPSIS

Casi un millón de mujeres combatió en las filas del Ejército Rojo durante la segunda guerra mundial, pero su historia nunca ha sido contada. Este libro reúne los recuerdos de cientos de ellas, mujeres que fueron francotiradoras, condujeron tanques o trabajaron en hospitales de campaña. Su historia no es una historia de la guerra, ni de los combates, es la historia de hombres y mujeres en guerra.
¿Qué les ocurrió? ¿Cómo les transformó? ¿De qué tenían miedo? ¿Cómo era aprender a matar? Estas mujeres, la mayoría por primera vez en sus vidas, cuentan la parte no heroica de la guerra, a menudo ausente de los relatos de los veteranos. Hablan de la suciedad y del frío, del hambre y de la violencia sexual, de la angustia y de la sombra omnipresente de la muerte. Alexiévich deja que sus voces resuenen en este libro estremecedor, que pudo reescribir en 2002 para introducir los fragmentos tachados por la censura y material que no se había atrevido a usar en la primera versión.

Review: 'The unwomanly face of war' by Svetlana Alexievich

Writer: Svetlana Alexievich
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2017
Pages: 384
IBSN-13: 9780141983523
Price: 14.81€ (Paperback)
Mark: 10/10

SYNOPSIS

The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's history."
In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official narratives. Travelling thousands of miles, she spent years interviewing hundreds of Soviet women - captains, tank drivers, snipers, pilots, nurses and doctors - who had experienced the war on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. As it brings to light their most harrowing memories, this symphony of voices reveals a different side of war, a new range of feelings, smells and colours.
After completing the manuscript in 1983, Alexievich was not allowed to publish it because it went against the state-sanctioned history of the war. With the dawn of Perestroika, a heavily censored edition came out in 1985 and it became a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union - the first in five books that have established her as the conscience of the twentieth century.

lunes, 20 de agosto de 2018

Review: "Ante todo, mucho karma" by Laura Norton



Author: Laura Norton
Book: No culpes al karma #2
Publisher: Espasa
Year: 2017
Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9788467047769
Mark: 6/10
SYNOPSIS
 If you thought that after returning with Aaron, Sara, our Sara, was going to reach peace and serenity, is that you do not know her ... neither her, nor the fuck karma.

At the beginning of this novel, Sara finds herself right at the beginning of her fairy tale: an exciting job, a passionate husband and a son of an advertisement. But despite this winning hand, are you happy? Rhetorical question where there are: if you have no reason to torture yourself, Sara will search for you under the stones, and you will find them, well you will find them!

domingo, 19 de agosto de 2018

Reseña: "Ante todo, mucho karma" de Laura Norton


Libro: No culpes al karma #2
Editorial: Espasa
Año: 2017
Páginas: 400
ISBN-13: 9788467047769
Nota: 6/10
SINOPSIS
Si creías que después de volver con Aarón, Sara, nuestra Sara, iba a alcanzar la paz y la serenidad, es que no la conoces... ni a ella, ni al p... karma.

Al comienzo de esta novela, Sara se encuentra justo al principio de su cuento de hadas: un trabajo apasionante, un esposo apasionado y un hijo de anuncio. Pero a pesar de esta mano ganadora, ¿es feliz? Pregunta retórica donde las haya: si no tiene motivos para torturarse, Sara los buscará hasta debajo de las piedras, y los encontrará, ¡vaya si los encontrará!