Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997, English translation 2005) by Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015. This is a very powerful oral history of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Many different voices contribute to this book -- some philosophical, some heart-breaking, some angry, some humorous, and some grotesque in their apparatchik soullessness. This is the best non-fiction book I've read in many years.
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