Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl (Penguin Modern Classics)

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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. So she stays by his side, and she helps him through the fortnight it takes him to die, as his skin starts peeling off and all his colleagues die one by one.

Scientists estimate that it may take 20,000 years for the area around the plant to again become habitable. Beyond all the intensely painful experiences of the individual, there is a sub-plot, one whose all encompassing reach tells of the fate of an entire people whose homes lay within the contaminated zone, a people whose timeless and gentle existence was uprooted.The book relates the psychological and personal tragedy of the Chernobyl accident, and explores the experiences of individuals and how the disaster affected their lives. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It is almost inviduous to pick out any one part of this account, but its conclusions are laid out in the words of Valentina Timofeyevna Apanaasevich, the wife of just one of a team of workers drafted by the Soviet authorities to work in the contaminated zone.

Chernobyl Children International and the Clean Futures Fund are two of the charities in this effort.

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. Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk 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. The men were oblivious to their lack of protection, which even if it had been available would not have saved them.

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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. If you found the recent HBO series captivating, Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer provided some of the source material. Some of the numbers are just too shocking to get your head around, but the whole time I was reading this book I had one thought: how did I not know it was this bad? Undoubtedly, he saved lives, but so many lives were lost and the effects are certainly still affecting so many people today.