Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
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Author: Svetlana AlexievichTranslator: Keith Gessen
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-18
ISBN: 0312425848
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Picador
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Book Review: Outstanding first-person accounts but lacks elsewhere
Summary: 3 Stars
This latter part of this book is a gut-wrenching, incredible oral history of the victims and survivors and family members of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in 1986, and the "author" deserves credit for a tremendous amount of work over three years gathering and recording these important personal stories for history.
However, the book needed some background about the disaster and some explanation of what actually occurred in the disaster to put all the stories into perspective. It also could benefit from some brief paragraphs explaining some of the things the survivors mention -- I was confused about times and dates and some of the terminology.
And the first few sections are very confusing because the dialog makes no sense. It would have been better paraphrased. I almost gave up reading this book but I'm glad I didn't because the second half stories are much more coherent and compelling.
I also would have appreciated having the ages of the narrators along with their names and affiliation before each story, not at the end.
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