"Urzeczeni śmiercią" to wyznania o samobójstwach, jakie nastąpiły po rozpadzie ZSRR. O powodach targnięcia się na życie mówią samobójcy, których zdołano odratować, albo najbliżsi tych, których uratować się nie udało. Samobójstwa starych komunistów można jeszcze zrozumieć, skoro zawaliło się wszystko, w co wierzyli i czemu poświęcili życie. Ale kiedy próbuje skończyć ze sobą kobieta urodzona w łagrze i wychowana w domu dziecka? Ale samobójstwa ludzi młodych, którzy nie widzą dla siebie przyszłości na zgliszczach imperium, oskarżających starsze pokolenie, że przekazano im niewolnictwo we krwi?
Author
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to be a journalist at the University of Minsk and worked a teacher, journalist and editor. In Minsk she has worked at the newspaper Sel'skaja Gazeta, Alexievich's criticism of the political regimes in the Soviet Union and thereafter Belarus has periodically forced her to live abroad, for example in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden. Svetlana Alexievich depicts life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals. In her books she uses interviews to create a collage of a wide range of voices. With her "documentary novels", Svetlana Alexievich, who is a journalist, moves in the boundary between reporting and fiction. Her major works are her grand cycle Voices of Utopia, which consists of five parts. Svetlana Alexievich's books criticize political regimes in both the Soviet Union and later Belarus. In 2015 Ms Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
