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 | : | First 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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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.
Very touching voices, chronicling the Chernobyl experience and comparing life before and after the moment that changed everything. Svetlana Alexievich captures the suffering of ordinary people of all walks of life, as well as that of professional staff sent to Chernobyl to deal with the crisis immediately after it happened. She creates a social panorama of the society that was affected in its totality by the nuclear disaster.I will never forget my feelings in 1986, living in West Germany and
As I watched the HBO miniseries about Chernobyl, I thought incessantly about the people: the first responders, the farmers, the children. In short, the entire affected population. Lies were told, contaminated food consumed, lives were lost and are still being lost. The human cost is incalculable and ongoing to this day. Chernobyl should not be referred to as an accident. It was, and is, an unimaginable disaster. It destroyed an empire, demoralized a people and shocked the world. This anthology
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
"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 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
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