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Svetlana Alexiavich, last year's Nobel Prize winner, has a new book out in English,

Second Hand Time, The Last of the Soviets. We'll discuss with our viewer, Adam Hokeshild.

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Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015. Her latest book, Second Hand Time,

The Last of the Soviets, has just been translated and published here.

Adam Hokeshild, no stranger to this podcast, reviews it for us this week. Welcome back, Adam.

Yes, a pleasure.

Is of course the new book in English from the recent Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich.

Have you read her work before?

I have. I read the book that's in English under the sort of awkward title, Zinky Boys.

I read part of it that appeared in Grant at Magazine, which was about Soviet veterans of the Afghan war.

Their Afghan war. That's the only bit of her work that I've read before, but I was very

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