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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 | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 236 pages |
| Published | : | April 18th 2006 by Picador (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Cultural. Russia. Science |
Svetlana Alexievich
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature On 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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Extraordinary compendium of monologues detailing various effects of the Chernobyl disaster. Alexievich's skill at unearthing horrible, moving truths from her interviewees is notable. I'd suggest supplementing the book with some background reading on Chernobyl (wikipedia is fine), since the medium doesn't allow for a direct re-telling of what happened. The two wives' tales that bookend the narrative will stick with me for a long time.I was about 5 when Chernobyl happened, and my family lived near the Baltic Sea, not that far from the explosion zone, relatively speaking. I can't really remember what exactly I understood about what had happened. I remember our family friend's little niece came from Belarus to stay for the summer. I have strange knowledge of the dangers of radiation and mutations and acid rains and death by "belokroviye" (leukemia). I knew a lot of people with enlarged thyroids and I also somehow still know
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
"Is there anything more frightening than people?"One day I will read this book again.One day when I can muster the courage to trek back to my tear-stained copy.Not only is Alexievich a wonderful journalist, but a woman who knows how to talk to people as fellow human beings who pour out their aching hearts onto the pages of these books.She captures the dialogue wonderfully; she makes you feel as though you were at the Chernobyl Plant when it failed. She also manages to encapsulate such a rich
This is a moving, often harrowing, oral history of the disaster at Chernobyl in 1986. It begins with the story of the young, pregnant wife of one of the first fire fighters, who responded to the fire at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and of his slow, untimely death. This is hard to read, but also extremely humbling. The author allows the words of those who lived, and many who still live, in the affected areas to tell their own story. It is a catalogue of trauma of lives which
"Sometime in the future, we will understand Chernobyl as a philosophy. Two states divided by barbed wire: one, the zone itself; the other, everywhere else. People have hung white towels on the rotting stakes around the zone, as if they were crucifixes. It's a custom here. People go there as if to a graveyard. A post-technological world. Time has gone backwards. What is buried there is not only their home but a whole epoch. An epoch of faith. In science! In an ideal of social justice! A great
The 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
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