Secondhand Time

Name: Secondhand Time
Author: Svetlana Alexievich

by Svetlana Alexievich

Oral history documenting post-Soviet life and collapse of communism

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Svetlana Alexievich

Belarusian author and Nobel laureate who has created a unique form of documentary prose fiction compiled from hundreds of testimonies. Voices from Chernobyl, The Unwomanly Face of War, and Secondhand Time are her masterworks.

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