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Second-Hand Time - The Last Of The Soviets (Paperback)
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From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 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. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive
documentary style, Second-Hand Time is a monument to the collapse
of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating
on what will rise from the ashes of Communism. As in all her books,
Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in
the official narratives of nation-states, creating a powerful
alternative history from the personal and private stories of
individuals. ‘Communism had an insane plan: to refashion the “old”
breed of man, ancient Adam,’ writes Alexievich. ‘This was perhaps
communism’s only achievement. Seventy plus years in the
Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave rise to a new kind of man, the
Homo sovieticus.’ In this magnificent requiem Alexievich’s method
is simple: ‘I don’t ask people about socialism, I ask about love,
jealousy, childhood, old age. Music, dances, hairstyles. The myriad
sundry details of a vanished way of life… It never ceases to amaze
me how interesting ordinary, everyday life is. There are an endless
number of human truths… I am fascinated by people.’ From this
fascination emerges a hugely important and deeply moving portrait
of post-Soviet society. In a nation that likewise grapples with
making sense of scattershot historical experience, Alexievich’s
portraits may make the South African reader draw unexpected and
uncomfortable parallels between Russia post-1990 and South Africa
post-1994.
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