Secondhand Time
The Last of the Soviets
by Svetlana Alexievich
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“@martinbright It's amazing. Have you read Second Hand Time Best book of the century so far for me. Just incredible.”
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in History and Nonfiction.
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the...
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“@martinbright It's amazing. Have you read Second Hand Time Best book of the century so far for me. Just incredible.”
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