Chernobyl Prayer

From Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature: a devastating human history of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, now in an emotive new translation. First there is the voice of the firefighter’s wife, who was kept from going to her husband because he was a dangerous radioactive object. Then, the voice of an old woman unable to see why she has to leave her farm, and her village. And of course, the “clean-up crew,” the soldiers and scientists for whom everything changed on th