2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich (Author), Bela Shayevich (Translator)
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voi…
2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Shortlist

A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
Robert F. Worth

City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer
