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Secondhand time by svetlana alexievich 9781910695111. To read svetlana alexievichs second hand time, the latest of her books to be translated, is to relive those days. 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. Great quality books good reads, old favourites, biographies, reference, antiquarian etc etc. As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when. May 23, 2016 second hand time is the latest work from svetlana alexievich, winner of the 2015 nobel prize in literature for inventing a new kind of literary genre.

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