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Currently taking my time to read this scintillating and heartbreaking work, Second Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich. A huge (700 page) distillation of so many monologues from women (and some men) who reminisce, idolise/idealise and grieve about life before the fall of the Soviet Union. The voices are those of the subjects, but she weaves a fascinating cloth from it all.

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Fitzcarraldo EditionsSecond-hand Time | Fitzcarraldo EditionsSecond-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the […]

alojapan.com/1252227/protester Protesters march for WWII relief for civilians and others who were overlooked #Ginza #news #Okinawa #SovietUnion #Tokyo #TokyoAirRaids #TokyoNews #u.s. #WarDead #wwii #東京 #東京都 Protesters marched in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district Saturday, demanding a legislative measure to provide relief for those who suffered during World War II, including civilians killed in air raids. Bereaved family members and survivors of WWII walked the streets with pl…