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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexiévich
emotional
informative
medium-paced
This book makes an excellent companion to other Chernobyl media, and I came to it after watching the HBO miniseries.
Some of the stories / vignettes wander a little, but they are human conversations and experiences so that made sense.
Some of them were haunting - the bit about the little boy who wore the father's hat from Chernobyl then got a brain tumor... It really painted a picture of the reach outside of the reactor, outside of the exclusion zone, outside of a history shrouded in lies directly to the people if affected.
Some of the stories / vignettes wander a little, but they are human conversations and experiences so that made sense.
Some of them were haunting - the bit about the little boy who wore the father's hat from Chernobyl then got a brain tumor... It really painted a picture of the reach outside of the reactor, outside of the exclusion zone, outside of a history shrouded in lies directly to the people if affected.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail