It took Alexievich, who was born in Ukraine but lived most of her life in Belarus, 10 years to finish.
The latest installment, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, covers the breakup of the USSR and the chaotic transition that ensued. So far, her output consists of five books she calls The History of the Red Man.
Alexievich's methods have earned her comparisons to American historians Studs Terkel and Howard Zinn, but her accomplishments are in a category of their own: In 2015, the 68-year-old journalist became the first primarily nonfiction writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature since Winston Churchill did it in 1953. For the past 35 years, Svetlana Alexievich has traversed the former Soviet Union, Dictaphone in hand, recording thousands of interviews with ordinary people-from construction workers in Siberia to helicopter pilots in Ukraine.
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