![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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 by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait based on the revised text. She recorded hundreds of interviews with workers at the nuclear plant. While the official Soviet narrative downplayed the accident's impact, Svetlana Alexievich wanted to know how people understood it. ![]() The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. On 26 April 1986 the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occured in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. 'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer Print Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl This lesson will focus on her books War Does Not Have a Womans Face, Boys in Zink, and The Chernobyl Prayer: the Chronicles of the Future. ![]()
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