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

dark 76%
informative 76%
reflective 74%
sad 70%
emotional 66%
challenging 55%
tense 17%
hopeful 3%
inspiring 3%
adventurous 1%
funny 1%
mysterious 1%

Pace

slow 56%
medium 42%
fast 1%

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4.47

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