Secondhand Time

The newest book from the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, an oral history of Russia from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the rise of Putin, in English for the first time.

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.