amazonVoices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster [Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26
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Almost finished with this book. It's a very raw collection of experiences from people who experienced the accident including those who cleaned up (liquidators). Highly recommend. It won the Nobel Prize in 2015.
Here's an example:
"We came home. I took off all the clothes that I'd worn there and threw them down the trash chute. I gave my cap to my little son. He really wanted it. And he wore it all the time. Two years later they gave him a diagnosis: a tumor in the brain...You can write the rest of this yourself. I don't want to talk anymore."
I had no idea Belarus got it so bad. Most of the fallout landed there. 20% of their current annual budget goes towards Chernobyl related costs. 20% of the farming land is gone.