Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills’ | Books | The Guardian
Like all of Alexievich’s works, Chernobyl Prayer is based on documentary interviews with eyewitnesses – in this case survivors of a cataclysm that saw 50m curies of radiation dumped into the atmosphere. They include rescue […]