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'. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the rubble. Fashioning a singular, polyphonic literary form by combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, Alexievich creates a magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, a brilliant, poignant and unique portrait of post-Soviet society out of the stories of ordinary women and men.
- ISBN13 9788193237243
- Publish Date 15 June 2017 (first published 23 May 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint Juggernaut Publication
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 584
- Language English