Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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,...
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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 USSR, charting the decli
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B01DI6E5NK
Publisher: Text Publishing
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Series: REPORTAŻ
I used to understand our way of life… The way we lived used to make sense to me… Now, I don’t understand anything anymore… None of it makes any sense at all…Προφορικές διηγήσεις νοσταλγίας, στέρησης, υπερηφάνειας και ντροπής, απομυθοποίησης, εθνικισμού• οι ιστορίες υφαίνονται από εκατοντάδες συνεντε...
3.5 Stars,Svetlána Alexándrovna Alexiévich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSeconhand time: The Last of the Soviets traces the emotional history of the Soviet and post-Soviet individual th...
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