I’m from a country that is in the buffer zone of Germanic and Russian imperial pursuits therefore we suffered a lot during the last centuries. I’m from a country that is in the heart of Europe. I still plan to read the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, but I must take a break from these books. They brought unimaginable bloodshed against citizens, including their own. One is national and the other one is international socialism, or if you prefer, fascism and communism. I read about one of the most important European traumas of the 20th century and I also wanted to read about the other. I read recently the two books of Edith Eger The Choice and The Gift. I probably read about its Hungarian translation on a blog dedicated to literature. I don’t know where I heard about Secondhand Time. It’s a quite long book and when I started reading it, total war was not something the mainstream expected. I also had a feeling that “weeping” is one of the most frequent words in Secondhand Time.įirst of all, the timing of this book review or the fact that I’m posting it in March, 2022 has nothing to do at all with the war raging in Ukraine and I don’t want this book to be part of any statement of political opinion on the current events. Like I did so many times while reading this book. I’ve been sitting in front of my laptop weeping. It’s very hard to start writing this blog post.
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