![]() ![]() ![]() As a newspaper journalist, she spent her early career in Minsk compiling firsthand accounts of World War II, the Soviet-Afghan War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Chernobyl meltdown. “Secondhand Time” is an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia.īringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, “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.Īs 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.Īlexievich was born in Ukraine in 1948 and grew up in Belarus. ![]() TEHRAN – The fifth edition of a Persian translation of Belarussian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich’s book “Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets” has come to Iranian bookstores.Ĭheshmeh released the first edition of the book translated from the Russian edition into Persian by Abdolmajid Ahmadi in 2019. ![]()
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