![]() ![]() ![]() It is important to keep in mind that Alexievich calls her book a work of. ![]() 'Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. Svetlana Alexievich, (born May 31, 1948, Stanislav, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. In Russian, the title reads A Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years collecting testimonies from survivors - clean-up workers, residents, firefighters, resettlers, widows, orphans - crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love.Ī chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget. 4.41 avg rating 53,174 ratings published 1997 11 editions. ![]() Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text - The startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015. ![]()
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