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Author: Светлана Алексиевич

📘 Чернобыльская молитва by Светлана Алексиевич

Svetlana Alexievich’s “Chernobyl Prayer” compiles powerful oral histories from those who lived through the 1986 reactor accident. Drawing on interviews with victims, soldiers, journalists, and locals across Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, the book reveals the human toll of radiation, the environmental devastation, and the lingering social and health effects. Alexievich’s reportage offers an unflinching look at the ordinary lives disrupted by an extraordinary catastrophe and the new reality the survivors must navigate.

First publish date: 2006

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Светлана Алексиевич

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