An exclusive extract from Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich. The Nobel Prize winner is in conversation with James Meek at the Cambridge Union on Tuesday 31 May 2016 as part of the new PEN Atlas event series.
Find out more about Second-Hand Time, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, here.
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