"Alexievich's book, which should be a melancholy experience, is both more and less than that.Read it to find out !" - Thomas Riggins, Political Affairs "Chernobyl, more that Gorbachev’s perestroika, may be the real cause of the collapse of the USSR."Grim and grotesque, the stories accrete across the pages like the radionuclides lodged in the bodies of those who survived." - Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times Book Review.(.) Hers is a peerless collection of testimony." - Andrew Meier, The Nation "Svetlana Alexievich's remarkable book, recording the lives and deaths of her fellow Belarussians, has at last made it into American bookstores.Awarded the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction.Voices from Chernobyl was previously translated into English by Antonina Bouis (Aurum Press, 1999).Translated and with a Preface by Keith Gessen.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Voices from Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich
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