Chernobyl prayer

For several decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been writing her chronicle “Voices of Utopia.” Five books have been published in which the “little man” himself talks about time and himself. The titles of the books have already become metaphors: “War Doesn’t Have a Woman’s Face”, “Zinc Boys”, “Chernobyl Prayer”… In fact, she created her own genre – a polyphonic confessional novel, in which small stories make up a big story, our XX century The main man-made disaster of the 20th century is twenty years old, “The Chernobyl Prayer” is published in a new author’s edition, with the addition of new text, with the restoration of fragments excluded from previous editions for censorship reasons.