Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 470 pages)
Edition:
First U.S. edition
ISBN:
0399588817
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9780399588815
Uniform Title:
Vremja sekond-chėnd
Content:
Chronology -- Remarks from an accomplice -- I. The Consolation of Apocalypse -- Snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (1991-2001) -- Ten Stories in a Red Interior -- On the beauty of dictatorship and the mystery of butterflies in cement -- On brothers and sisters, victims and executioners ... and the electorate -- On cries and whispers ... and exhilaration -- On the lonely red marshal and three days of forgotten revolution -- On the mercy of memories and the lust for meaning -- On a different Bible and a different kind of believer -- On the cruelty of the flames and salvation from above -- On the sweetness of suffering and the trick of the Russian soul -- On a time when anyone who kills believes that they are serving God -- On the little red flag and the smile of the axe -- II. The Charms of Emptiness -- Snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (2002-2012) -- Ten Stories In The Absence of an Interior -- On Romeo and Juliet ... except their names were Margarita and Abulfaz -- On people who instantly transformed after the fall of communism -- On a loneliness that resembles happiness -- On wanting to kill them all and the horror of realizing you really wanted to do it -- On the old crone with a braid and the beautiful young woman -- On a Stranger's Grief that God has deposited on your doorstep -- On life the bitch and one hundred grammes of fine powder in a little white vase -- On how nothing disgusts the dead and the silence of dust -- On the darkness of the evil one and "the other life we can build out of this one" -- On courage and what comes after -- Notes from an everywoman.
Content:
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Note:
"An oral history"--Cover
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First published in Russian in 2013
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Includes bibliographical references
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Translated from the Russian
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780399588808
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0399588809
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948- Secondhand time New York : Random House, [2016]
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Aleksievič, Svjatlana Aljaksandraŭna, 1948 - Secondhand time New York : Random House, 2017 ISBN 9780399588822
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0399588825
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
Author information:
Aleksievič, Svjatlana Aljaksandraŭna 1948-
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