Voices from Chernobyl : [the oral history of a nuclear disaster

This is not a book about Chernobyl, but about the world it has left us. Alexievich spent three years interviewing dozens of survivors, victims and witnesses. This is their testimony, their voices, and they are unforgettable Covers 1 Title Page 5 Contents 7 Translator's Preface 9 VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL 15 Historical Notes 16 Prologue: A Solitary Human Voice 20 PART ONE: The Land of the Dead 40 About What Can Be Talked About with the Living and the Dead 40 About a Whole Life Written Down on Doors 46 Soldiers' Chorus 48 About What Radiation Looks Like 66 About a Song Without Words 69 About a Homeland 70 About Repentance 79 By Those Who Returned 82 PART TWO: The Land of the Living 96 About Old Prophecies 96 About a Moonlit Landscape 99 About a Man Whose Tooth Was Hurting When He Saw Christ Fall 101 About a Single Bullet 107 About How We Can't Live Without Chekhov and Tolstoy 115 About War Movies 120 A Scream 129 About a New Nation 130 About Writing Chernobyl 138 About Lies and Truths 144 Peoples' Chorus 153 PART THREE: Amazed by Sadness 166 About What We Didn't Know: Death Can Be So Beautiful 166 About the Shovel and the Atom 169 About Taking Measurements 176 About How the Frightening Things in Life Happen Quietly and Naturally 178 About Answers 185 About Memories 188 About Loving Physics 190 About Expensive Salami 196 About Freedom and the Dream of an Ordinary Death 198 About the Shadow of Death 204 About a Damaged Child 208 About Political Strategy 210 By a Defender of the Soviet Government 216 About Instructions 217 About the Facts 220 About Why We Love Chernobyl 228 Children's Chorus 231 A Solitary Human Voice 236 In Place of an Epilogue 250 Consecuencias sobre las personas que les tocó vivir una nueva realidad que todavía existe pero que aún no se ha comprendido. Aquellos que sufrieron Chernóbil son los supervivientes de una Tercera Guerra Mundial nuclear. Según Alexievich, en este mundo hostil ?todo parece completamente normal, el mal se esconde bajo una nueva máscara, y uno no es capaz de verlo, oírlo, tocarlo, ni olerlo. Cualquier cosa puede matarte... el agua, la tierra, una manzana, la lluvia. Nuestro diccionario está obsoleto. Todavía no existen palabras, ni sentimientos, para describir esto?. Voces de Chernóbil recibió en marzo de 2006 el premio del Círculo de Críticos de Estados Unidos en reconocimiento a la fuerza narrativa de Alexievich y a la importancia de las historias que cuenta. Esta edición en castellano incluye además testimonios inéditos hasta la fecha, incorporados por la autora a la que es la última versión de la obra elaborada por ella con motivo del XX aniversario de la catástrofe On April 25, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl. Until now, all of the books published in English focused on the facts, names, and data. Voices from Chernobyl presents first-hand accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they lived through. In order to give a voice to their experiences, Svetlana Alexievich--a journalist by trade--interviewed hundreds of people who had been affected by the meltdown. From innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disaster, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucial document of what happened and how people reacted to it. Alexievich presents these interviews in monologue form, giving readers a harrowing inside view into the minds of the affected people untempered by government spin, accusations, or judgements, leaving the reader with just the life-shattering pain of living through such an event and its aftermath

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

On 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. Comprised of interviews in monologue form, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucially important work, unforgettable in its emotional power and honesty.

Winner of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Written by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature On 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 meltdownfrom innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disasterand 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. On 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 presents 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 A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015