Secondhand Time is a collection of interviews of people across the former Soviet Union, spreading from Sakhalin islands in the far-east to Baku in Central Asia. Book- Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Author- Svetlana Alexievich Translated by Bela Shayevich Publisher- Juggernaut 570 pagesIt is a curious coincidence that the beginning and the end of the Soviet Union have been recorded by journalists. In 1965, the Nobel Committee gave the Prize for Literature to Mikhail Sholokhov for the epic novel, And Quiet Flows The Don. Sholokhov was one writer that the Nobel Committee and Soviet leaders had agreed on. The Nobel Committee called it "polyphony".

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