Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

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Svetlana Alexievich

512 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative reflective slow-paced

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TH...

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dark 75%
informative 75%
reflective 74%
sad 69%
emotional 65%
challenging 55%
tense 16%
hopeful 3%
inspiring 2%
adventurous 1%
funny 1%
mysterious 1%

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medium 41%
fast 1%

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