![]() ![]() 'Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. Chernobyl Prayer, first published in 1997 and then revised in 2013, is part of a project collectively entitled, with some irony, Voices from Utopia, which Alexievich has been working on since 1985. Author: Svetlana Alexievich Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd Language: Angu valoda ISBN code: 9780241270530 Cover type: Soft cover Year of publication:2016. 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. CHERNOBYL PRAYER: VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL 9780241270530 The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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