Ukraine

Chernobyl Prayer
by Svetlana Alexievich

Nobel prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich collected this series of monologues from people affected by a nuclear disaster that took place in 1986 but continues to affect the lives of many. Without colour, smell or sound, its toxic fallout ignored borders and in a moment changed the present and future and created a new people: the children of Chernobyl.

Translated by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait
Penguin Classics, 2006
First published in 1997
ISBN 9780241270530