Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

Voices from Chernobyl (Lannan Selection)

by Svetlana Alexievich

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

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Fascinating and heartbreaking true stories of surviving Chernobyl, in the words of the survivors themselves. What's even more chilling than what they went through, is the fact that the sarcophagus over the reactor has cracks in it and could fail, leading to an even worse nuclear disaster than the one in the 80s. Chernobyl is both a historical event and an ongoing event, and a huge global threat to the future.

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