Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets 20th Century Historical Fiction As her power and influence

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets 20th Century Historical Fiction As her power and influenceNEW 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 Literature NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY LOS ANGELES TIMESBOOK PRIZE WINNER One of the New York Timess100 Best Books of the 21st Century When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it