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."