Chernobyl Prayer. A Chronicle of the Future

The fourth book of the famous artistic-documentary cycle "Voices from Utopia" by Svetlana Alexievich, the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature in 2015 for "polyphonic creativity - a monument to suffering and courage in our time," is dedicated to the main man-made catastrophe of the 20th century. "Two catastrophes coincided: the cosmic one - Chernobyl, and the social one - a huge socialist continent went underwater. And this second collapse overshadowed the cosmic one, because it is closer and more understandable to us. What happened in Chernobyl is the first time on Earth, and we are the first people to experience it." "Chernobyl Prayer" is being published in a new author's edition - the book has increased by a third due to restored fragments that were excluded from previous editions for censorship reasons.