Voices from Chernobyl

The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Paperback, 256 pages

English language

Published July 15, 2006 by Picador.

ISBN:
978-0-312-42584-5
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OCLC Number:
67557517

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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (titled Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future in the UK) is a book about the Chernobyl disaster by the Belarusian Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich. At the time of the disaster (April 1986), Alexievich was a journalist living in Minsk, the capital of what was then the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Alexievich interviewed more than 500 eyewitnesses, including firefighters, liquidators (members of the cleanup team), politicians, physicians, physicists, and ordinary citizens over a period of 10 years. The book relates the psychological and personal tragedy of the Chernobyl accident, and explores the experiences of individuals and how the disaster affected their lives.Chernobyl Prayer was first published in Russian in 1997 as Чернобыльская молитва; a revised, updated edition was released in 2013. The American translation was awarded the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction.The HBO television miniseries Chernobyl …

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Subjects

  • Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  • Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age
  • History / World
  • World - General
  • History
  • History - General History
  • Belarus
  • Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl§, Ukraine, 1986
  • Environmental aspects
  • Personal narratives, Belarusian
  • Social aspects
  • History: World