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Voices from Chernobyl
by Svetlana Alexievich
Survivors, liquidators, widows and children of Chernobyl in their own words. The source for the HBO series; unbearable and necessary.
Read it if…
you want Chernobyl's human truth.
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Skip it if…
you want the technical account.
Try instead: The Unwomanly Face of War →
Three things you will actually use
- Lies compound disaster.
- Ordinary people absorbed it.
- Remember the names.
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Read the opening monologue of the firefighter's widow.
Our verdict
Alexievich's Chernobyl.
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