der i en klar og præcis prosa skildrer tab

og Shehadeh kan vandre frit blandt hyrder og beduiner uden skelen til grænser eller politiske forhold

Bogen taler ind i en tid

at Jon Høyers danske vers bevarer og reproducerer metrikken

at han må opretholde sin stands anstand og holdning: ”lidt tenue – om jeg må bede”

Second-hand Time der i en klar ogSecond hand Time is the latest 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