They accused her of offending their “honour and dignity” and of portraying their soldier sons as “soulless killer-robots, pillagers, drug addicts and racists”. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.I n 1993, two years after Svetlana Alexievich published Boys in Zinc, her oral history of Russia’s war in Afghanistan, she was sued by a number of the people she had interviewed. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. heart-breaking' - Arundhati Roy, Elle 'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget. 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. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. Alexievich won a Nobel Prize' - Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO / Sky TV series Chernobyl - A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text - In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition.
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