Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Ya que son entrevistas, la forma en que está escrito evidencia que no es un autor profesional a quien estás leyendo sino gente que no nació para narrar historias, que no sabe estructurar, sin gran vocabulario… Es extremadamente repetitivo, obviamente la mayoría de la gente vivió experiencias muy similares, habiendo escuchado unas cuantas ya lo escuchaste todo.

Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it's more like having a well-read friend than a subscription to a literary review. The men were oblivious to their lack of protection, which even if it had been available would not have saved them.You can unsubscribe from our list at any point by changing your preferences, or contacting us directly.

The heroism of the firemen at Chernobyl, their pride and sense of duty, was in stark contrast to the cynical incompetence of the government. In this chapter, Svetlana Alexievich makes it clear that this is not a book about the details of what happened at Chernobyl, why the reactor failed, who was to blame, etc. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. She talked with residents of the surrounding villages, soldiers recruited to help with the cleanup efforts, politicians, academics, nuclear scientists, farmers, teachers, widows, and children in hospital wards, and what she accomplishes within this fairly slim volume is quite remarkable. To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page.

One man actually reclaimed his front door – which his family had always laid the bodies of their dead relatives – snatching it in the night and taking it, like a thief, through the woods. If you found the recent HBO series captivating, Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer provided some of the source material. Chernobyl is often remembered as a Russian incident, but 70% of the radioactivity fell upon Belarus, causing everything from the long-term poisoning of a quarter of the country’s farmland to an 64-fold increase in the rate of cancer. 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. 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.