Secondhand Time 1st Edition Svetlana Alexievich Bela Shayevich by Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich 9789386228697, 9386228696, B082NY8SK6 instant download after payment.

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 

"Dramatic chronicles as universally essential as Greek tragedies."  -  Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker 

"Alexievich’s voices are those of people that no one cares about, but the ones whose lives constitute the vast majority of what history actually is... This is history, major history, but written, as all history should be, from below."  -  The Guardian UK 

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.

“Already hailed as a masterpiece across Europe, Secondhand Time is an intimate portrait of a country yearning for meaning after the sudden lurch from Communism to capitalism in the 1990s plunged it into existential crisis."   -  The New York Times