Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich’s devastating “Voices from Chernobyl – The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster”, is a towering work not only about the devastating effects on the lives of ordinary people who survived the 1986 nuclear accident in the Ukraine, but also of government incompetence, cruelty, lies and official cover-up. While there was only one immediate casualty (as many as 4000 died in the later years), the scale of the aftermath was so cataclysmic, so vast and so enduring that it can only be told in through the small, anguished voices of the ordinary people who perished and those …read more
Source: Daily Maverick
