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This book offers a startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in Literature 2015. On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and po...
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Penguin Books,
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| Publisher Address: | [London] : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Russian |
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Penguin modern classics
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This book offers a startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in Literature 2015. On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. 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 u |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 293 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780241270530 0241270537 |
| Index Number: | TD186 |
| CLC: | I512.55 |
| Call Number: | I512.55/A366 |