10 best books of May: the Monitor's picks

Here are the 10 May releases the Monitor's book critics liked best.

4. 'Secondhand Time,' by Svetlana Alexievich

This epic oral history by 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich chronicles the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the formation of today’s Russia. Monitor reviewer Bob Blaisdell calls this book “the most ambitious Russian literary work of art of the century.” You can read the Monitor's full review of "Secondhand Time" here.

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