Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Random House Publishing Group, 2017. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Random House Publishing Group Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used book with minor cover wear. The 2015 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated by Bela Shayevich. An oral history, a history of the soul, a history of emotions, about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the and the emergence of a new Russia. 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". Everyday Russian citizen recount the past thirty years, showing what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left on its wake. Through interview spanning the years 1991 to 2012, she takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts giving a panoramic account of Russia and Russians who still have memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres, but also pride in their country and hope for the future and a belief that everyone working together can bring about a utopia. 496 pages. 8vo. 2017, Random House, New York. ISBN10: 0399588825, ISBN13: 9780399588822