Book Club 3rd Meeting!

We are happy to announce that during the third meeting of our Book Club, which we will hold on 30 January 2022 (provisional date), at 5pm, we will discuss Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time.

Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian journalist and writer who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". Her work depicts life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals. In her books she uses interviews to create a collage of a wide range of voices, moving between reporting and fiction.

Secondhand Time is perhaps her most well-known work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a monument to the collapse of a culture and a speculation on the kind of man that arose from its ashes. Reviewers were unanimous in their praise – hopefully, it will also meet the highest standards of the Clarendon scholars!