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Svetlana Alexievich

Светлана Алексиевич

Born 1948 · Belarus

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Warwick Prize 2017 · Shortlist

    Second-Hand Time

    Время секонд хэнд · Vremya sekond khend

    Svetlana Alexievich · 65 when first published

    Nonfiction · 704 pages · Politics, Historical

    Translated by Bela Shayevich

    AI-generated summary:People from across the former Soviet Union speak about their lives before and after communism, in monologues the author recorded over many years of travel, asking what became of the Soviet human type once socialism was gone.