Translation copyright © 2016 by Bela Shayevich
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Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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Originally published in Russian as Время секонд хэнд by Vremya Publishing House, Moscow, in 2013. Copyright © 2013 by Svetlana Alexievich. This English translation is published in the United Kingdom by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Aleksievich, Svetlana.
Title: Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets / Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Bela Shayevich.
Other titles: Vremëiìa sekond khçend. English | Secondhand time
Description: New York : Random House, 2016. | First published in Russian in 2013.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016005925| ISBN 9780399588808 (hardback : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780399588815 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Post-communism—Russia (Federation) | Russia (Federation)—Social conditions—1991– | Soviet Union—Social conditions. | Russia (Federation)—Biography. | Soviet Union—Biography. | Oral history—Russia (Federation) | Oral history—Soviet Union. | BISAC: HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics. | HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Classification: LCC DK510.76 .A44913 2016 | DDC 947.086092/2—dc23 LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2016005925
ebook ISBN 9780399588815
Book design by Mary A. Wirth, adapted for eBook
Cover design: Anna Bauer Carr
Cover photograph: Rory Carnegie/GalleryStock
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