Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future

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First published in Russian as Чернобыльская молитва: Хроника будущего 1997

This translation first published in Penguin Classics 2016

Text copyright © Svetlana Alexievich, 1997, 2013

Translation copyright © Anna Gunin and Arch Tait, 2016

The moral rights of the author and translators have been asserted

Cover photograph © Jean Gaumy

ISBN: 978-0-241-27054-7