Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich

Second-Hand Time

Голоса утопии #5

Svetlana Alexievich with Bela Shayevich (Translator)

695 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative reflective slow-paced
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"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 al...

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Moods

informative 79%
dark 72%
reflective 71%
sad 69%
emotional 64%
challenging 55%
tense 20%
inspiring 5%
hopeful 4%
funny 1%

Pace

slow 57%
medium 40%
fast 1%

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