Svetlana Alexievich
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| Title | : | Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Голоса утопии #4) |
| Author | : | Svetlana Alexievich |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 236 pages |
| Published | : | April 18th 2006 by Picador (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Cultural. Russia. Science |
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureOn April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown—from innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disaster—and their stories reveal the fear, anger, and uncertainty with which they still live. Composed of interviews in monologue form, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucially important work of immense force, unforgettable in its emotional power and honesty.
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| ISBN: | 0312425848 (ISBN13: 9780312425845) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Голоса утопии #4 |
| Setting: | Prypiat(Ukraine) Chernobyl(Ukraine) Belarus …more Kiev Oblast(Ukraine) Moscow(Russian Federation) Chernobyl Exclusion Zone(Ukraine) …less |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2005), Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (1998) |
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CONGRATULATIONS, SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH WITH THE NOBEL WIN! I can't express enough how proud for her and happy I am right now!__________________________________________________________________________________________________Undoubtedly, this was one the most, if not the most powerful text written in Russian language for the last few decades. It's a doc book. Svetlana Aleksievich gave voice to dozens of ordinary people who suffered from Chernobyl disaster. They are telling their stories withoutThe first interview is with the widow of one of the firemen who were sent in on the first day. He'd been shoveling radioactive sludge dressed in only jeans and a t-shirt, his skin turned grey over an afternoon, he literally fell apart within days. She caught cancer from sitting at his bedside as he died.The second interview is with a psychologist who lived through World War II in the Ukraine and still can't find anything that compares to working in the Zone.The third is with one of the old women
The magic that Alexievitch produces is mainly full of loss, doubt, ambivalence, chaos. Not clear finger-pointing righteousness. It is an act of complete chagrin and yet inexplicable need to share. A shock that evil might manifest through everyman, an aparatchik, an ignorant neighbour. Evil = ignorance. Chernobyl stays unknown even for those who ruined their lives there. It is a terrifying stare down the abyss. The experience of apathy, insensibility in all its magnitude. It is unlike anything
Some historical backgroundA lone human voiceThe author interviews herself on missing history and why Chernobyl calls our view of the world into question--Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the FutureA lone human voiceIn place of an epilogue
Today, April 26th, is the 26th 27th anniversary of Chernobyl catastrophe. In case you're wondering - no, Google did NOT feature it on its home page (same as last year, sadly). But shouldn't humanity remember this disaster?****This is one of the most horrifying books I have ever read. It reads like a postapocalyptic story, except for all of it is horrifyingly real. Svetlana Alexievich, a journalist, provides real but almost surreal in their horror oral accounts of Chernobyl disaster. On April
A few years ago, I left a copy of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History out on the table. It was designed as a sort of breadcrumb trail for my teenaged son who didnt need to read since he already knew everything. I hoped he might be sucked in by the pictures. A week later my son walked out of his bedroom clutching the book. Have you read this!? he was nearly yelling with urgency. This guyI cant believeshit! Im telling my English teacher that he needs to make everyone in the class
This book was really, really good and I might consider re-reading it. What's with us people that we love so much reading about disastrous things like that?
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