In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the winne of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a...

2015 Nobel Laureate Alexievich brings together the voices of people who witnessed the fall of the USSR, gathering monologues and establishing a collage of accounts, as questions suggest themselves regarding the type of character who...