Svetlana Alexievich

Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

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Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of what happened on April 26, 1986, when the worst nuclear reactor accident in history contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Svetlana Alexievich--a journalist who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book--interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown. Their narratives form a crucial document revealing how the government masked the event with deception and denial. Harrowing and unforgettable, Voices from Chernobyl bears witness to a tragedy and its aftermath in a book that is as unforgettable as it is essential.
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  • Joselyn Argüelles Alcántarashared an impression3 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    "Somos metafísicos. No vivimos en la tierra sino en muestras quimeras, en las conversaciones. En las palabras. Debemos añadirle algo más a la vida cotidiana para poderla comprenderla. Incluso cuando nos encontramos junto a la muerte... ¿Por qué me he hecho fotógrafo? Porque me faltaban palabras"

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  • Roberto Garzahas quoted5 years ago
    As for me, nothing happened there to my soul or my mind. That’s all a lot of nonsense.
    This one thing stuck in my memory. That one thing. No one had a single bullet, there was nothing to shoot that little poodle with. Twenty guys. Not a single bullet at the end of the day. Not a single one
  • no ramoshas quoted2 years ago
    ­self. We always say “we," and never “I." “We’ll show them Soviet heroism," “we'll show them what the Soviet character is made of." We'll show the whole world! But this is me, this is I. I don't want to die. I'm afraid.
  • no ramoshas quoted2 years ago
    But that’s also a form of barbarism, the absence of fear for oneself.

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