Tag: chernobyl
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
What Alexievich did — the process of doing more than 500 interviews with various people related to the disaster, over a 10-year period to write this book — is just astonishing. She received the Nobel Prize in 2015, and this is a work of journalism like nothing I’ve ever read. It is overwhelmingly sad. It’s…
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Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Detailed, well-researched, gripping and grim as hell. It makes a fantastic companion to the HBO miniseries – in fact many events in this book seem to have been recreated in the series, though no formal attribution was made. It’s a horrible story of institutional failure paid for in human lives. Written like a thriller, it…