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Second Hand Time
"Second Hand Time" is the latest work of Alexeyevich, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature. Through oral interviews, it tells the story of the painful social transformation in the two decades from 1991 to 2012 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the lives of ordinary people at critical historical moments, and the price they paid for their shattered dreams. In the book, everyone from scholars to cleaners is searching for the meaning of life again. Their true narrations present a
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Zinc-Skinned Child Soldier
In December 1979, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan and began the ten-year, complicated but cruel war in Afghanistan. A generation of Soviet youths, most of them in their early twenties, were drafted into the army under the banner of "Help our Afghan brothers". The war in Afghanistan ended in 1989, but the memory of the war is a complicated quagmire, and these young people of this generation may remain in it for their entire lives. In the form of oral history, this book records the bloody and
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