Voices from Chernobyl
Record details
- ISBN: 9781564784018
- ISBN: 1628973307
- ISBN: 9781628973303
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Physical Description:
x, 240 pages, 1 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.
print - Edition: First paperback edition.
- Publisher: Normal : Dalkey Archive Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Lannan selections"--Page [241]. "First published in Russian as Tchernobylskaia Molitva by Editions Ostojie, 1997"--Title page verso. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Translator's preface -- Historical note -- Prologue: A solitary human voice -- pt. I: The land of the dead : On why we remember ; About what can be talked about with the living and the dead ; About a whole life written down on doors ; By those who returned ; About what radiation looks like ; About a song without words ; About a homeland ; About how a person is only clever and refined in evil ; Soldiers' chorus -- pt. II: The land of the living : About old prophecies ; About a moonlit landscape ; About a man whose tooth was hurting when he saw Christ fall ; About a single bullet ; About how we can't live without Chekhov and Tolstoy ; About war movies ; A scream ; About a new nation ; About writing Chernobyl ; About lies and truths ; People's chorus -- pt. III: Amazed by sadness : About what we didn't know: death can be so beautiful ; About the shovel and the atom ; About taking measurements ; About how the frightening things in life happen quietly and naturally ; About answers ; About memories ; About loving physics ; About expensive salami ; About freedom and the dream of an ordinary death ; About the shadow of death ; About a damaged child ; About political strategy ; By a defender of the Soviet government ; About instructions ; About the limitless power one person can have over another ; About why we love Chernobyl ; Children's chorus ; A solitary human voice -- In place of an epilogue. |
Language Note: | Translation of: Tchernobylskaïa molitva. |
Awards Note: | Nobel Prize Winner, 2015. |
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