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Chernobyl Prayer
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
| Author:
Svetlana Alexievich
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Author:
Svetlana Alexievich
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. There’s a reason Ms. Alexievich won a Nobel Prize’ – Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO / Sky TV series Chernobyl – A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text – In April 1986 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. ‘Beautifully written. . . heart-breaking’ – Arundhati Roy, Elle ‘One of the most humane and terrifying books I’ve ever read’ – Helen Simpson, Observer
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. There’s a reason Ms. Alexievich won a Nobel Prize’ – Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO / Sky TV series Chernobyl – A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text – In April 1986 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. ‘Beautifully written. . . heart-breaking’ – Arundhati Roy, Elle ‘One of the most humane and terrifying books I’ve ever read’ – Helen Simpson, Observer
About Author
Svetlana Alexievich (Author) Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own, distinctive non-fiction genre which brings together a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Boys in Zinc (1991), Chernobyl Prayer (1997) and Second-Hand Time (213). She has won many international awards, including the 215 Nobel Prize in Literature for 'her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time'.
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