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. In 2015 Ms Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Svetlana Alexievich's books criticize political regimes in both the Soviet Union and later Belarus. Her major works are her grand cycle Voices of Utopia, which consists of five parts. With her 'documentary novels', Svetlana Alexievich, who is a journalist, moves in the boundary between reporting and fiction. In her books she uses interviews to create a collage of a wide range of voices. The Wall Street Journal 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. Svetlana Alexievich depicts life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals. Complete summary of Svetlana Alexievichs Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets. Alexievich’s tools are different from those of a novelist, yet in its scope and wisdom, Secondhand Time is comparable to War and Peace. In Minsk she has worked at the newspaper Sel'skaja Gazeta, Alexievich's criticism of the political regimes in the Soviet Union and thereafter Belarus has periodically forced her to live abroad, for example in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden. She studied to be a journalist at the University of Minsk and worked a teacher, journalist and editor. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich (Translator) 4.46 16,326 ratings2,347 reviews From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Praise for Svetlana Alexievich and Secondhand Time.

Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine.

Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich