The fourth book of the famous fiction and documentary series “Voices of Utopia” by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic creativity – a monument to suffering and courage in our time,” is dedicated to the main man-made disaster of the 20th century.

“Two catastrophes coincided: a cosmic one – Chernobyl, and a social one – a huge socialist continent went under water. And this second collapse eclipsed the cosmic one, because it is closer and more understandable to us. What happened in Chernobyl was the first time on earth, and we are the first people to survive it.”

“The Chernobyl Prayer” is published in a new author’s edition – the book has increased by a third due to the restored fragments excluded from previous editions for censorship reasons.