Secondhand Time

From Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, comes an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. In her distinctive documentary style, Alexievich brings together dozens of voices to form a monument to the collapse of the USSR that charts the decline of Soviet culture and speculates 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 official narratives, creating a powerful alternative history for readers.