Voices from Chernobyl

By Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen (translator),

Book cover of Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and…

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1 author picked Voices from Chernobyl as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book has gained in popularity, lately, with the publishing of the Chernobyl series on HBO. The stories are haunting, but incredibly important. They show how confusing, secretive, and awful the event was. I chose this book because its philosophy is the same as mine — that this was a major event in history and it must be recorded and preserved so future generations may learn from it. Alexievich has done wonderful work in this tome.

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