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A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Dramatic chronicles as universally essential as Greek tragedies." - Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker In Second-Hand Time, Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich writes the life stories of housewives, artists, party workers, students, soldiers and traders living through a time of political upheaval – the fall of the Soviet Union and the two decades that followed it. As they tell her their secrets, their passions, their sorrows, their hopes, she builds a picture of a nation and of lived history, as epic as the greatest of novels. "Alexievich’s voices are those of people that no one cares about, but the ones whose lives constitute the vast majority of what history actually is... This is history, major history, but written, as all history should be, from below." - The Guardian UK When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions - a history of the soul.” Alexievich’s distinctive documentar

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Author

Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich (translation)

Publisher

Random House

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780399588815

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Memoir