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Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexiévich
5.0

Chernobyl Prayer does a wonderful job at making Chernobyl into less of a historical event in my eyes and more into an event of extreme trauma and terror. Instead of a book where the night is dissected coldly and events are given in timelines and graphs, you have a book of people sobbing and crying and screaming at you about what happened.