Review of “La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer”

Alexiévich, Svetlana (2015). La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer. (Y. Dobrovolskaia y Z. García González, trads.). Barcelona: Editorial Debate.

Abstract

“La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer” is an approach to the Second World War from the Soviet women’s point of view. In the face of a mainstream narrative that prioritizes men’s experiences, Svetlana Alexievich interviews many of those forgotten protagonists of the war and presents us a different book. The result of such a meticulous journalistic, literary, and historiographic work is a set of plural voices that speak about daily issues such as hunger, fear of death and love, offering a view far removed from the traditional heroism.