Voices from Chernobyl

Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people following the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident. The government hushed up much of the results of the accident, but we now know that over 485 villages were lost and about 2.1 million people live on contaminated land. Thousands have died and thousands have been born with debilitating birth defects. This is a book of voices, of people speaking up, telling what really happened.