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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Russian: Время секонд хэнд, romanized: Vremya sekond khend) is a 2013 book by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. An oral history of the Soviet Union and its end, it shares the feelings and views of its people as the country transitioned to capitalism. The book contains few ...
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich [1] (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, ... Chernobyl Prayer in 1999 and Second-hand Time in 2013, ...
Fitzcarraldo Editions was founded in 2014 when Jacques Testard bought the English-language rights to Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich for £3500 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. [4] Alexievich later won the Nobel Prize, netting a "six-figure" sum for the publisher. The name comes from the 1982 Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo.
The second book in Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, ... Secondhand Time: Svetlana Alexievich: 2016 73: The Passage of Power: ... Elizabeth Hand Paul Tremblay ...
Zinky Boys [1] (Russian: Цинковые мальчики, romanized: Tsinkovye malchiki), also translated as Boys in Zinc [2] is a 1989 documentary book by Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich about the Soviet–Afghan War.
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948) "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is described as the first journalist and the first Belarusian national to receive the Nobel prize which she received on December 10, 2015.
Second-hand Time, by Svetlana Alexievich, translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich, edited by Jacques Testard (Fitzcarraldo Editions) Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg, translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak, edited by Max Porter and Ka Bradley (Portobello Books).
Second-hand Time: Svetlana Alexievich: Bela Shayevich Swallow Summer: Larissa Boehning Lyn Marven Clementine Loves Red: Krystyna Boglar: Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Zosia Krasodomska-Jones The Coast Road: Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh