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Secondhand Time

10 min read 13 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

Through intimate monologues, Nobel laureate Alexievich captures the Soviet people's shattered identity after their world collapsed, leaving them as ghosts in their own land.

You’ll learn

  • The death of a civilization
  • The trauma of forced change
  • The search for new meaning
  • The weight of a lost dream