The startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015
- A new translation based on the revised text -
On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years collecting testimonies from survivors - clean-up workers, residents, firefighters, resettlers, widows, orphans - crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget.
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own, distinctive non-fiction genre which brings together a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Boys in Zinc (1991), Chernobyl Prayer (1997) and Second-Hand Time (2013). She has won many international awards, including the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for 'her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time'.
1986年4月26日,位于乌克兰北部的切尔诺贝利核电站发出了一声巨响,这座号称“最安全、最可靠”的核电站发生严重泄漏事故并爆炸,大火熊熊燃烧,辐射污染遍及各地。 虽然距离这起事故已经过去了25年,当时的苏联早已解体,但是切尔诺贝利带来的伤痛并未消失,它留下了一片一片...
评分(刊于《晶报》深港书评·专题2015年10月18日 第A10版、A11版) 文/俞耕耘 S.A.阿列克谢耶维奇连续三年赔率领先,终获2015年诺贝尔文学奖。这至少说明,这个名字虽不为国人熟悉,却自有得奖的道理。这位白俄罗斯女记者、纪实作家,1948年生于乌克兰,毕业于明斯克大学新闻学...
评分(刊于《晶报》深港书评·专题2015年10月18日 第A10版、A11版) 文/俞耕耘 S.A.阿列克谢耶维奇连续三年赔率领先,终获2015年诺贝尔文学奖。这至少说明,这个名字虽不为国人熟悉,却自有得奖的道理。这位白俄罗斯女记者、纪实作家,1948年生于乌克兰,毕业于明斯克大学新闻学...
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评分How can you write down my soul? I can't always make sense of it myself.
评分讀到毛骨悚然的紀實作品…然鵝我們生活在一個????post-truth時代!很燒腦的書
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