- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2017 · Shortlist · for the translation by Bela Shayevich
Second-Hand Time
Время секонд хэнд · Vremya sekond khend
Svetlana Alexievich (Светлана Алексиевич, born 1948)
Translated by Bela Shayevich
English editions
In EnglishSecond-Hand Time
Fitzcarraldo Editions · United Kingdom · 2019 · Paperback · 680 pages
Second-Hand Time
Fitzcarraldo Editions · United Kingdom · 23 May 2016 · Paperback · 704 pages
Secondhand Time
Random House · United States · 24 May 2016 · Hardcover
Secondhand Time
Random House Trade Paperbacks · United States · 21 March 2017 · Paperback · 496 pages
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Built entirely from the voices of real people, this documentary work gathers monologues recorded on journeys across the former Soviet Union. It closes a five-book cycle about the 'red man', the human type that, in the author's view, seventy years of Soviet rule created, and whom she recognises in herself, her friends and her parents. Victims and perpetrators speak side by side, from a former secret-police executioner to an old man who survived the camps and still believes in communism. The author sets out to listen to every participant in the socialist drama without judging them, letting time and the voices themselves do the judging: socialism has ended, but its people remain.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 512 pages in the original
- Genres
- Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2013 by Vremya
- Author's age
- 65 when first published
- ISBN
9785969111295 (original)
9781910695111 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)
9780399588808 (Random House, United States)
9780399588822 (Random House Trade Paperbacks, United States)
9781913097219 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)
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