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Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future

By Arch Tait , Svetlana Alexievich , Anna Gunin

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2016
ISBN
0241270537, 9780241270530
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
586 kB (599704 bytes)
Pages
0\0
Time added
2016-06-02 15:24:24

Description

A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. 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. A 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.

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