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Ebook: Chernobyl prayer: a chronicle of the future
Author: Aleksievich Svetlana, Gunin Anna, Tait A. L
- Tags: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Chornobylʹ Ukraine 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Chornobylʹ Ukraine 1986--Environmental aspects--Belarus, Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Chornobylʹ Ukraine 1986--Social aspects--Belarus, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Nuclear Issues, Nuclear Weapons, Reportage & Collected Journalism, Social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, The Cold War, Personal narratives, Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Chornobylʹ Ukrai
- Series: Penguin modern classics
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: Belarus;Ukraine;Chornobylʹ
- Language: English
- epub
A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015
On 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.