Author : Katya Cengel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2023-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1640125728
Katya Cengel covers her time as a recent college graduate reporting from the former Soviet Union in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Riga, Latvia, shortly after the fall of Communism.
Author : Светлана Алексиевич
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
Author : Andy Marino
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338770659
"Nonstop action, real history, serious danger. You gotta read these books!" —Alan Gratz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee 26 April 1986 01:18 Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds. Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he's fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway with a mop. Alina's best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. Her father is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filled her with pride. In five minutes, Reactor No. 4 will explode in a ball of fire. It will expel radiation across their town for nine days before it's finally contained. For the people of Pripyat, it will be far too late. — Two young siblings flee the Chernobyl disaster with their parents, but the Communist party is on their heels. Meanwhile, the friends and family they were forced to leave behind must contend with a disinformation campaign that's determined to pretend nothing is wrong-even as deadly radiation spills into the air.
Author : Lauren Redniss
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Chemists
ISBN : 9780062226051
Presents the professional and private lives of Marie and Pierre Curie, examining their personal struggles, the advancements they made in the world of science, and the issue of radiation in the modern world.
Author : Alina Bronsky
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1787700410
Baba Dunja is a Chernobyl returnee. Together with a motley bunch of former neighbours, they set off to create a new life for themselves in the radioactive no-man's land. Geiger counter and irradiated forest fruits be damned, there in that abandoned patch of Earth they have everything they need. Terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up with 100-year-old Sidorow; Baba Dunja whiles away her days writing letters to her daughter... rural bliss reigns, until one day a stranger turns up in the village, and the small settlement faces annihilation once again. With her trade-mark wry humour Bronsky tells the story of a community that shouldn't exist, and of a very unusual woman who late in life finds her own version of paradise.
Author : Vesna Goldsworthy
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1912242818
"Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it."— Times Literary Supplement How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir, Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family, and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to England, and a successful media and academic career, then a cancer diagnosis and its unresolved consequences. A profoundly moving, comic, and original account by a stunning literary talent.
Author : Keijo Kangur
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2021-07-11
Category :
ISBN :
Join us on a journey through the zone . . . The aim of this photo book is to poignantly portray the desolate and haunting beauty found in the decaying ruins of Chernobyl, which nature is slowly reclaiming. It consists of three hundred carefully selected photos, taken by the authors on two trips to the zone of alienation in the summer of 2018 and autumn of 2020. Also included are numerous interesting facts related to the various locales explored within.
Author : Michael Beres
Publisher : Medallion Press, Inc.
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933836294
In a western Ukraine wine cellar in 1985, Chernobyl engineer Mihaly Horvath discloses the unnecessary risks associated with the power plant to his brother, Kiev Militia detective Lazlo. Spawned by a desire to protect his family, Lazlo investigates--irritating his superiors, drawing the attention of a CIA operative, raising the hackles of an old KGB major, and ultimately discovering his brother's secret affair with a Chernobyl technician, Juli Popovics. After the explosion, the Ukraine is not only blanketed with deadly radiation, but also becomes a killing ground involving pre-perestroika factions in disarray, a Soviet government on its last legs, and madmen hungry for power. With a poisoned environment at their backs and a killer snapping at their heels, Lazlo and Juli flee for their lives--and their love--in this engrossing political thriller.
Author : Josip Novakovich
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"Apricots from Chernobyl" is a collection of beautifully crafted narratives on life in the former Yugoslavia, and subsequently in America, by widely published author and essayist Josip Novakovich. Exploring topics that include emigration, definition of borders, societal diversity, and the decay of religion, Novakovich's narratives are approachable and engaging. Whether describing his feelings of apprehension upon approaching a boarder, or the difficulties encountered when writing in a second "tongue," Novakovich is fresh, wry, and consistently entertaining. "Apricots from Chernobyl" offers a candid portrayal of global existence, skillfully blending its sometimes brutal but often ironic and humorous realities.
Author : Svetlana Alexievich
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1943150990
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
