![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. 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. Her book, ‘ Chernobyl Prayer’ reads like a beautiful cascading waterfall of events imbued with oral history of horror. The startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. ![]() A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text - Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich review witnesses speak A revised edition of the harrowing monologues from survivors of the disaster brought together by the Nobel prize-winner The. ![]()
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