Svetlana Alexievich: The Unwomanly Face of War [2017] paperback SLANG What are the humanities

What are the humanities

It distils the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments - and lifetimes - of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us

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They used this connection to the cycles of the natural world - from which we are increasingly dissociated - as an animating force in their lives

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