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Secondhand Time: The Last Of The Soviets,Used
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New York Times 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 Literaturenamed One Of The Ten Best Books Of The Year By The Washington Post And Publishers Weekly Los Angeles Timesbook Prize Winnerone Of The New York Timess100 Best Books Of The 21St Centurywhen 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 Emotionsa History Of The Soul. Alexievichs 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.In Secondhand Time, 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 Its 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, Massacresbut 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. Hereis An Account Of Life In The Aftermath Of An Idea So Powerful It Once Dominated A Third Of The World.A Magnificent Tapestry Of The Sorrows And Triumphs Of The Human Spirit Woven By A Master, Secondhand Time Tells The Stories That Together Make Up The True History Of A Nation. Through The Voices Of Those Who Confided In Her, The Nation Writes, Alexievich Tells Us About Human Nature, About Our Dreams, Our Choices, About Good And Evilin A Word, About Ourselves.A Best Book Of The Year: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Npr, Financial Times, Kirkus Reviews
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