Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union by Svetlana Alexiévich

Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union

Voices of Utopia #5

Svetlana Alexiévich with Bela Shayevich (Translator)

496 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative reflective slow-paced
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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 documentary style, com...

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