Chernobyl Prayer Voices from Chernobyl

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literaturebr>br>''Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. There''s a reason Ms. Alexievich won a Nobel Prize'' - Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO / Sky TV series Chernobylbr>br>br>- A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text -br>br>In April 1986 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 uncertainty, but also dark humour and love. br>br>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.br>br>''Beautifully written. . . heart-breaking'' - Arundhati Roy, Elle br>br>''One of the most humane and terrifying books I''ve ever read'' - Helen Simpson, Observer>

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alexievich Svetla, Svetlana Alexievich, Swetlana Alexijewitsch, Anna Gunin, Arch Tait, Svetlana Alexijevich, Alexievich Svetlana
• Collaboration: Anna Gunin (Traduction), Arch Tait (Traduction), Gunin Anna (Traduction), Tait Arch (Traduction)
• Edition: Penguin Books Uk
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 21.04.2016
• Catégorie: Littérature spécialisée
• EAN: 9780241270530
• ISBN: 978-0-241-27053-0
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Dimensions (emballage): 12,9 x 19,7 x 1,7 cm
• Thème: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Catégories: Essays, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Joan Didion, Naomi Klein, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, exit west, Cold War, Mohsin Hamid, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Snyder, Robert Macfarlane, Reportage & collected journalism, Audre Lorde, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, The Power, Raynor Winn, Olga Tokarczuk, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear issues, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Max Porter, Naomi Alderman, Orlando Figes, Antony Beevor, life and fate, penguin modern classics, midnight in chernobyl, fiona mozley, alone in berlin, the uninhabitable earth, the last, the salt path kindle edition, grief is the thing with feathers, east west street, sciece non-fiction, East of West, peter pomerantsev, stalin s war, the survivalist, jenni diski