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SECOND-HAND TIME : LAST OF THE SOVIETS

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: New Delhi Juggernaut 2016/01/01Edition: 1Description: 570ISBN:
  • 9788193237243
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920.7 ALE/SE
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Lending Lending Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks Non-fiction 920.7 ALE/SE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 E188969

Secondhand time
Summary:
"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'."

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