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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexiévich, Alma Lapinskienė, Keith Gessen
23 reviews
vncavalcanti's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Death, Animal death, Child death, Abandonment, Chronic illness, and Cancer
Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, and Chronic illness
rafacolog's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Cancer, Animal death, Grief, and Death
boydgirl's review against another edition
Graphic: Death, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Miscarriage and Cancer
cjcrawfish's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Cancer, and War
Moderate: Pregnancy, Animal death, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, and Suicide
djryan's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: War, Suicide, and Death
jhbandcats's review against another edition
5.0
This book was so hard to read. I kept having to stop and take a break. And then I procrastinated so I didn’t have to read any more of it. I’m relieved I finally finished. Of course, the struggles I faced reading it are farcical in comparison to what the people of the Chernobyl disaster experienced.
I found the book hard to read because it was so painful, people describing the worst time of their lives. These memories were interspersed with the occasional gung-ho Soviet who, ten years later, in the face of all the evidence, refused to admit anything had gone wrong, that it was all Western propaganda designed to tear down the achievements of the great Soviet Union. And this five years after the Soviet Union collapsed.
It was also hard to read because the chapters were all transcripts of people talking - and people talk in a very different way than they write, jumping from topic to topic, forgetting where they are in the middle of a sentence, saying something and then immediately backtracking. That said, this book is an essential chronicle of how people experienced the disaster that was Chernobyl. Anyone interested should find this compelling, if difficult and disturbing, reading.
Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Cancer, Infertility, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Abortion, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, Animal death, Classism, Death, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Gore, and Chronic illness
sinistralcalluna's review against another edition
5.0
However, be aware that it contains first person accounts of death from radiation poisoning, and the effects of radiation on infants and children.
Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Miscarriage, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, and Animal death
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical content, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Suicide, Child death, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic
puglover's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Cancer, Animal death, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Medical trauma and Deportation
Minor: War, Suicide, Torture, and Pregnancy
sophie42's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death
Moderate: Chronic illness, Suicide, Animal death, and Medical content
Minor: Alcohol, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence
stacy_es's review against another edition
3.75
The form of the interviews and monologues was really nice, it appealed to emotions rather than facts. Some of the speeches were so painful and scary, especially the paragraph with the kids interviews.
But there were so many inexplicable things that were infuriating me. Ignorance, silent obedience, hiding of the facts altogether with saying about heroic deeds of liquidators. But so many of these actions were pointless while the deaths of these people were simply dreadful, they could only dream of just death.
Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Child death