About the book:
\nWhen the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize\ , it cited her for inventing &ldquo\;a new kind of literary genre\,&rdquo\ ; describing her work as &ldquo\;a history of emotions &mdash\; a history of the soul.&rdquo\; Alexievich&rsquo\;s distinctive documentary style\, c ombining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices\, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunit y to speak\, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation.
\nIn \;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 S oviet Union and what it&rsquo\;s like to live in the new Russia left in it s wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012\, Alexievich takes us beh ind the propaganda and contrived media accounts\, giving us a panoramic po rtrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of opp ression\, terror\, famine\, massacres &mdash\; 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. \;Secondhand Time \;tells the stories that together make up the true history of a natio n. \;
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