Modern Classics: Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0241270537 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-25 |
| Language | : | Russian |
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"Interesting perspectives from survivors across the spectrum but at times" according to Paulo Forjaz. Interesting perspectives from survivors across the spectrum but at times wordy and verbose. I think that some of the monologues in particular could have been edited to improve readability.. Lady Fancifull said Painful to read; ostrich like to not do so. Svetlana Alexievich’s Chernobyl Prayer, the account of ordinary Belarusians whose lives and land were horribly affected by the reactor blowing, is a difficult, horrifying and yet unavoidable read. At least, unavoidable if you believe we need to face terrible real. Geoff Crocker said Devastation at Chernobyl. Svetlana Alexievich deploys her unique gift of collating people’s experiences, reflections and insights into a powerful statement of the Chernobyl event. She shows how people can report in greater depth than journalists. The devastation of the land, the dreadful
The distilled work goes deep into the subject. She takes pains to convey the cadence of a person's words. She is after the ephemeral; the emotion behind written history; the "history of the soul." Here, she believes, is where the truth lies -- Vanora Bennett * Prospect * This masterly new translation by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait retains the nerve and pulse of the Russian, conveying the angst and confusion of the narrators -- Serguei Alex. She polishes. Oushakine * Times Literary Supplement * . Give me beautiful prose and I'll follow you anywhere -- Arundhati Roy * Elle * A searing mix of eloquence and wordlessness From her interviewees' monologues she creates history that the reade
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. The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015 - A new translation by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait based on the updated and expanded text - On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclea
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. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own, distinctive non-fiction genre which brings together a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. . Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Boys in Zinc (1991), Chernobyl Prayer (1