![]() ![]() Give me beautiful prose and I'll follow you anywhere - Arundhati Roy * Elle * A searing mix of eloquence and wordlessness. The book leaves radiation burns on the brain - Julian Barnes * Guardian * Absolutely fantastic - Karl Ove Knausgaard A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on. heart-breaking' - Arundhati Roy, Elle 'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, ObserverĪ collage of oral testimony that turns into the psycho biography of a nation not shown on any map. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget. ![]() While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years collecting testimonies from survivors - clean-up workers, residents, firefighters, resettlers, widows, orphans - crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. ![]() Alexievich won a Nobel Prize' - Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO / Sky TV series Chernobyl - A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text - In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. ![]()
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