by Svetlana Alexiévich · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490624401
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«Voces de Chernóbil: Crónica del futuro» is the non-fiction chronicle by Svetlana Alexiévich, published by Debolsillo in paperback (408 pages, in Spanish).
Voces de Chernóbil brings together monologues and testimonies from survivors of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Svetlana Alexiévich gives voice to firefighters, soldiers, doctors, relatives and evacuees, and reconstructs a community broken and silenced by the Soviet regime, in a narrative conceived as a modern Greek tragedy without catharsis.
This work is the fourth installment of the Voices of Utopia series. The Spanish translation is by Ricardo San Vicente and the original work dates from 1997. Svetlana Alexiévich received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015.
It is a work for readers of narrative journalism, Soviet history and disaster chronicles.
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.
