Name: Voices from Chernobyl
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 1564784010

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FL-0082E.V.

ALEXIEVICH, Svetlana

Voices from Chernobyl

2005

1. Biography 2. The Nuclear Age

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Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl (1997; English 2005) Overview An oral history assembled from three years of interviews in Belarus, published in Russian in 1997 as Tchernobylskaia Molitva — Chernobyl Prayer — and translated by Keith Gessen in 2005. It is not a book about a reactor. Almost nothing in it explains what happened at 1:23 on 26 April 1986, and the one speaker who could explain it, a nuclear physicist, spends his monologue arguing about faith instead. It is a book about the people the accident happened to, and…

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Accession:FL-0082

ISBN-13:1564784010

Published:2005

Language:en

Shelved under:Biography, The Nuclear Age

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