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Voices from Chernobyl

Svetlana Alexievich

  • 304 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1997
  • 27 editions
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1 About this book

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Russian: Чернобыльская молитва, romanized: Chernobylskaya molitva, lit. 'Chernobyl Prayer'), published as Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future in the United Kingdom, is a book about the Chernobyl disaster by the Belarusian Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich.

Chernobyl Prayer was first published in Russian in 1997; a revised, updated edition was released in 2013. The American translation was the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction recipient during 2005.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: history and a true life story.

  • Environmental aspects
  • History, 20th Century
  • History
  • Military History
  • History, Military
  • Biography
  • Social science
  • Personal narratives

2 About Svetlana Alexievich

Born 1948

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian author, investigative journalist, and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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