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Secondhand Time The Last of the Soviets

Svetlana Alexievich

NEW YORK TIMES When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions—a history of the soul.” Alexievich’s distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues...

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This book, an oral history that won the Nobel Prize, was referenced to illustrate the desire for a higher purpose and nostalgia for the Soviet era among some Russians.

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There's a great book called Secondhand Time, won the Nobel Prize in a few years back by a woman named Svetlana Alexeyevich. In this book, Secondhand Time, it's an oral history.

— Episode: Ep. 1440 - It’s War

Episode: Ep. 1440 - It’s War

This book, an oral history that won the Nobel Prize, was referenced to illustrate the desire for a higher purpose and nostalgia for the Soviet era among some Russians.

"

There's a great book called Secondhand Time, won the Nobel Prize in a few years back by a woman named Svetlana Alexeyevich. In this book, Secondhand Time, it's an oral history.

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