Brooklyn By the Book: Svetlana Alexievich with Sophie Pinkham

Wed, May 13 2020
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Virtual

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Secondhand Time is the magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature--a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Everyday Russian and former Soviet citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres but also of pride in their countries, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world.

"For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." --Nobel Prize Committee

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Brooklyn By the Book is a collaboration between the Brooklyn Public Library, Community Bookstore, and Congregation Beth Elohim. Co-presented with the Russian Literary Series.

Add to My Calendar 05/13/2020 03:00 pm 05/13/2020 05:00 pm America/New_York Brooklyn By the Book: Svetlana Alexievich with Sophie Pinkham <p><em>Secondhand Time</em> is the magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature--a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Everyday Russian and former Soviet citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres but also of pride in their countries, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world.<br /> <br /> "For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." --Nobel Prize Committee<br /> <br /> <span><span><span><a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/bpl-presents" target="_blank"><b><span><span>Click here to… Brooklyn Public Library - Virtual MM/DD/YYYY 60