Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

by Svetlana Alexievich

as a writer, I’ve thought about this, how it’s as if there are two people inside me, the pre-Chernobyl me and the post-Chernobyl one. And it’s very hard now to recall with any certainty what that “pre-” me was like. My vision has changed since then.