LEADER 04843cam a2200505 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20220721121529.0 006 a|||||r|||| 00| 0c 007 ta 008 160209s2017 nyu 000 0ceng 010 2016005925 020 9780399588822 (paperback : acidfree paper) 020 |z9780399588815 (ebook) 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |erda |dhubpceuo 041 1 eng |hrus 042 pcc 043 e-ru---e-ur--- 050 00 DK510.76 |b.A44913 2016 082 00 947.086092/2 |223 100 1 Aleksievich, Svetlana, |d1948- 240 10 Vremia sekond khend. |lEnglish 245 10 Secondhand time : |bthe last of the Soviets / |cSvetlana Alexievich ; translated by Bela Shayevich. 246 3 Second hand time 250 First U.S. Edition. 260 New York : |bRandom House, |c2017. 300 xiv, 470 pages ; |c25 cm 337 unmediated 500 First published in Russian in 2013. 505 0 Chronology -- Remarks from an accomplice -- I. The Consolation of Apocalypse -- Snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (1991-2001) -- Ten Stories in a Red Interior -- On the beauty of dictatorship and the mystery of butterflies in cement -- On brothers and sisters, victims and executioners...and the electorate -- On cries and whispers...and exhilaration -- On the lonely red marshal and three days of forgotten revolution -- On the mercy of memories and the lust for meaning -- On a different Bible and a different kind of believer -- On the cruelty of the flames and salvation from above -- On the sweetness of suffering and the trick of the Russian soul -- On a time when anyone who kills believes that they are serving God -- On the little red flag and the smile of the axe -- II. The Charms of Emptiness -- Snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (2002-2012) -- Ten Stories In The Absence of an Interior -- On Romeo and Juliet...except their names were Margarita and Abulfaz -- On people who instantly transformed after the fall of communism -- On a loneliness that resembles happiness -- On wanting to kill them all and the horror of realizing you really wanted to do it -- On the old crone with a braid and the beautiful young woman -- On a Stranger's Grief that God has deposited on your doorstep -- On life the bitch and one hundred grammes of fine powder in a little white vase -- On how nothing disgusts the dead and the silence of dust -- On the darkness of the evil one and "the other life we can build out of this one" -- On courage and what comes after -- Notes from an everywoman. 520 2 "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. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand 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"-- 520 2 "Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style of oral history, Secondhand 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. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize in Literature, they praised her 'polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,' and cited her for inventing 'a new kind of literary genre.' Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, added that her work comprises 'a history of emotions--a history of the soul'"-- 650 0 Post-communism |zRussia (Federation) 650 0 Oral history |zRussia (Federation) 650 0 Oral history |zSoviet Union. 651 0 Russia (Federation) |xSocial conditions |y1991- 651 0 Soviet Union |xSocial conditions. 651 0 Russia (Federation) |vBiography. 651 0 Soviet Union |vBiography. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6947_086092000000000_2_ALE |70 |8GEN |9159513OSA |bOSA |d2022-07-21 |eOSA |l0 |o947.086092/2 ALE |r2022-07-21 |w2022-07-21 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 lePD0Pey 992 01 947_086092000000000_2_ALE |bQVS_ZRTZQXZZZZZZZZZ_X_PEL 966 |cIn the Research Room