Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Chernobylskaya Molitva)

The fourth book in Svetlana Alexievich's celebrated fiction and documentary series, 'Voices of Utopia,' is dedicated to the greatest man-made disaster of the 20th century. Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, writes, 'For her polyphonic work—a monument to the suffering and courage of our time.' 'Two catastrophes coincided: a cosmic one—Chernobyl—and a social one—the submergence of a vast socialist continent. And this second collapse eclipsed the cosmic one because it is closer and more understandable to us. What happened in Chernobyl was a first on Earth, and we are the first people to survive it.' 'Chernobyl Prayer' is published in a new author's edition, with the addition of 30 percent new text and the restoration of fragments excluded from previous editions for censorship reasons.