![]() ![]() ![]() 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.Ī 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. ![]() 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. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster is a book about the Chernobyl disaster by the Belarusian Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich. A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text - 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. Alexievich won a Nobel Prize' - Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO / Sky TV series Chernobyl Chernobyl Prayer (Svetlana Alexievich) Christian Craughwell 267 subscribers Subscribe 21 Share 1.3K views 3 years ago Based on the final story in Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich. 'Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. The startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015. ![]()
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