Secondhand Time
by Alexievich, Svetlana
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0399588825
- ISBN 13
- 9780399588822
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About This Item
Trade Paperback. Publisher: Random House USA | 2017 | Trade Paperback | p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: 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. 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 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 is 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. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
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- Bookseller
- h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel (SE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB-10860243
- Title
- Secondhand Time
- Author
- Alexievich, Svetlana
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0399588825
- ISBN 13
- 9780399588822
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Place of Publication
- Us
- This edition first published
- 2017-03
- Keywords
- historia, Ryssland, vittnesmål, kommunism, vardagsliv
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