A signed & numbered exclusive hardback limited-edition of this important work from multi-award winning Belarusian investigative journalist, historian and essayist Svetlana Alexievich (b. 1948). 





** In October 2015, Svetlana Alexievich was named as the Winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature.  She was the first Belarusian to do so.  **






'Second-Hand Time ', published in this signed limited-edition in October 2024 by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 1st edition / 1st printing thus (the book was originally released in 2013), standard modern hardback.  704 pages.  Translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich.






This will be hand signed by Svetlana Alexievich to a hand numbered official publisher bookplate which will be affixed to the marbled front endpaper.


In New unread condition, still sealed within the publisher sellophane.   A special numbered limited-edition run of only 1000 copies.  As still sealed, I am unable to show any internal imagery or advise of the individual number of this copy.   


Bound in fine white cloth with blue lettering (in keeping with the colour scheme for all Fitzcarraldo's non-fiction titles, which have only been released in paperback until now).   No dustjacket as issued but the book has a large wraparound/belly band in place.   Marbled finish to all sides of the text block.  This release is part of a special cloth-bound small series of selected titles produced by the publisher to celebrate their 10th anniversary.






NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNER - 2015






Second-hand Time is an important work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.  Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the rubble. 



Fashioning a singular, polyphonic literary form by combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, Alexievich creates a magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, a brilliant, poignant and unique portrait of post-Soviet society out of the stories of ordinary women and men.













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