A harrowing account of the tragedy of Chernobyl in 1986. Lies; attempts to cover up the extend of the disaster; silence or misleading information from newspapers, doctors, scientists, and the Russian government; people themselves reacting with disbelief on one hand and panic on the other.
Who is to be blamed? This is a question that the victims of Chernobyl seem to have been struggling with ever since.

Svetlana Alexievich gives the victims of Chernobyl a space to tell their stories for the world to know what they experienced, what they have suffered. These are interviews with people who lived it in Belarus, people who were living and/or working by the nuclear reactor; people who faced and are still facing the tragic aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. People who lost loved ones, not only during the days right after the explosion, but they also continued losing loved ones months, even decades later; people who survived death, but live with long term illnesses from exposure to radiation, or their children were born to die, or were born to live sick and disabled. Voices from Chernobyl is a painful book to read, but the knowledge imparting about what happened according to first accounts of the victims of this global tragedy is invaluable.