{"product_id":"secondhand-time-the-last-of-the-soviets-paperback","title":"Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSvetlana Alexievich\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBela Shayevich\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOK PRIZE WINNER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e- NPR - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times - Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eSecondhand Time, \u003c\/i\u003e Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres--but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A magnificent tapestry of the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit woven by a master, \u003ci\u003eSecondhand Time \u003c\/i\u003etells the stories that together make up the true history of a nation. \"Through the voices of those who confided in her,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Nation \u003c\/i\u003ewrites, \"Alexievich tells us about human nature, about our dreams, our choices, about good and evil--in a word, about ourselves.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Svetlana Alexievich and \u003ci\u003eSecondhand Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The nonfiction volume that has done the most to deepen the emotional understanding of Russia during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union of late is Svetlana Alexievich's oral history \u003ci\u003eSecondhand Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e--David Remnick, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSvetlana Alexievich\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include \u003ci\u003eWar's Unwomanly Face \u003c\/i\u003e(1985), \u003ci\u003eLast Witnesses\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), \u003ci\u003eZinky Boys \u003c\/i\u003e(1990), \u003ci\u003eVoices from Chernobyl \u003c\/i\u003e(1997), and \u003ci\u003eSecondhand Time \u003c\/i\u003e(2013). She has won many international awards, including the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature \"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45340170223718,"sku":"9780399588822","price":30.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UXNWRGVQWXJlbHJVRW5YbHhXczd3Zz09.webp?v=1774763409","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/secondhand-time-the-last-of-the-soviets-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}