Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexiévich

18 reviews

georgiarybanks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Grief, Blood, Child death, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

samhackett's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Child death, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Suicide

byrdies's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book was emotionally devastating to read. It took the tragedy of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which is most often discussed as an example of the consequences of Soviet self aggrandizement, and placed it at the feet of the survivors. It placed it within the homes and minds of regular, normal, every day people. It forced the reader to confront the fact that yes, the world goes on, but that doesn't mean it wasn't irrevocably changed. At least for the people who lived through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Medical content, Suicide, Child death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Chronic illness, Infertility, Pregnancy, Gore, and Miscarriage

chambecc's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is a supreme accomplishment by Svetlana Alexievich. She skillfully blends anecdotes and stories from all sorts  into a profound work - liquidators, Communist Party officials, doctors, scientists, the family members of those sent to Chernobyl. Some stories from this book will stay with me for the rest of my life. 

A constant thing said in the book - touched on by all sorts of people, from journalists to ordinary folk who lived in what came to be known as the Zone - is the notion that what transpired at Chernobyl simply transcends normal language or human experience.  It is incomparable to anything else. 

Yet even with this being so, this book gives us an effusively brilliant perspective on this tragedy, and the real people whose lives were forever transformed by it. 

If you only ever read one book about Chernobyl, let it be this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Animal death, and Grief

cynaramaira's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Medical trauma, War, Miscarriage, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Medical content

violade's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Cancer

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Suicide, Body horror, and Grief

Minor: Child death and Chronic illness

valenblr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Cancer

Minor: Suicide

bettinablocksberg's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Infertility, Grief, Chronic illness, Child death, Cancer, Body horror, Blood, Animal death, and Alcoholism

Minor: Vomit