Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399588815
- ISBN: 0399588809
- ISBN: 9780399588808
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Physical Description:
xiv, 470 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in Russian in 2013. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Chronology -- Remarks from an accomplice -- I. The Consolation of Apocalypse -- Snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (1991-2001) -- Ten Stories in a Red Interior -- On the beauty of dictatorship and the mystery of butterflies in cement -- On brothers and sisters, victims and executioners ... and the electorate -- On cries and whispers ... and exhilaration -- On the lonely red marshal and three days of forgotten revolution -- On the mercy of memories and the lust for meaning -- On a different Bible and a different kind of believer -- On the cruelty of the flames and salvation from above -- On the sweetness of suffering and the trick of the Russian soul -- On a time when anyone who kills believes that they are serving God -- On the little red flag and the smile of the axe -- II. The Charms of Emptiness -- Snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (2002-2012) -- Ten Stories In The Absence of an Interior -- On Romeo and Juliet ... except their names were Margarita and Abulfaz -- On people who instantly transformed after the fall of communism -- On a loneliness that resembles happiness -- On wanting to kill them all and the horror of realizing you really wanted to do it -- On the old crone with a braid and the beautiful young woman -- On a Stranger's Grief that God has deposited on your doorstep -- On life the bitch and one hundred grammes of fine powder in a little white vase -- On how nothing disgusts the dead and the silence of dust -- On the darkness of the evil one and "the other life we can build out of this one" -- On courage and what comes after -- Notes from an everywoman. |
Language Note: | Translated from the Russian. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | 947.0860 ALEKSIVI 2016 | 39851001303982 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |