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Chernobyl's Prayer A Chronicle of the Future

Alexievich Svetlana
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Product details

ISBN
9781628974997
Published
2024-06-06
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press; Dalkey Archive Press
Height
215 mm
Width
139 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
300

Author
Alexievich Svetlana
Translated by
Tait Arch
Gunin Anna

Biographical note

Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Zinky Boys (1990), Voices from Chernobyl (1997), and Secondhand Time (2013). She has won many international awards, including the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”

Chernobyl's Prayer A Chronicle of the Future

Alexievich Svetlana
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Alexievich Svetlana
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
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"Beautifully written . . . heart-breaking."—Arundhati Roy, <i>Elle</i>

In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. 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.
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.
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  • Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
  • “Alexievich’s documentary approach makes the experiences vivid, sometimes almost unbearably so – but it’s a remarkably democratic way of constructing a book” – The Guardian
  • Essential reading for anyone interested in Russia, Easter Europe, or the future of journalism

    • Read more
    I don’t know what to tell you about. Death or love? Or is it the same thing. What should I tell you about? . . .

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    "Beautifully written . . . heart-breaking."—Arundhati Roy, <i>Elle</i>

    In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. 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.
    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.
    Read more
  • Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
  • “Alexievich’s documentary approach makes the experiences vivid, sometimes almost unbearably so – but it’s a remarkably democratic way of constructing a book” – The Guardian
  • Essential reading for anyone interested in Russia, Easter Europe, or the future of journalism

    • Read more
    I don’t know what to tell you about. Death or love? Or is it the same thing. What should I tell you about? . . .

    Product details

    ISBN
    9781628974997
    Published
    2024-06-06
    Publisher
    Dalkey Archive Press; Dalkey Archive Press
    Height
    215 mm
    Width
    139 mm
    Age
    G, 01
    Language
    Product language
    Engelsk
    Format
    Product format
    Innbundet
    Number of pages
    300

    Author
    Alexievich Svetlana
    Translated by
    Tait Arch
    Gunin Anna

    Biographical note

    Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Zinky Boys (1990), Voices from Chernobyl (1997), and Secondhand Time (2013). She has won many international awards, including the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”

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