Chernobyl Prayer
Voices from Chernobyl
$33.54
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2016
Summary
A haunting history of the Chernobyl disaster by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On 26 April 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl, contaminating as much as three-quarters of Europe. While the official Soviet narrative downplayed the accident’s impact, Svetlana Alexievich wanted to know how people understood it. She recorded hundreds of interviews with workers at the nuclear plant, refugees and resettlers, scientists, and bureaucrats, cra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241270530 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241270537 |
| Author: | Svetlana Alexievich, Anna Gunin, Arch Tait |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A collage of oral testimony that turns into the psycho
Alexievich is both a mighty documentarian and a mighty artist – Philip Gourevitch New Yorker Awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Svetlana Alexievich is a brilliant choice that recalibrates the status of “non-fiction” in the literary canon – Arifa Akbar Independent Svetlana Alexievich is the voice of modern Russia… The news that she is the receiver of this year’s Nobel prize in literature came as a rewarding surprise, not only because it reminds us that serious reporting is not dead in the Internet age, but also because it bestows a poetic quality to the journalistic endeavor – Michael Skafidas Huffington Post
About The Author
Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own, distinctive non-fiction genre which brings together a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Boys in Zinc (1991), Chernobyl Prayer (1997) and Second-Hand Time (2013). She has won many international awards, including the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time’.
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