Svetlana Alexijevich

An adaption the critically acclaimed novel Chornobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Belarusian Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich, a collection of several accounts of people affected by the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear catastrophe and its aftermath.

Based on The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich, which can be bought here.In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.Supervisor: Hayami Rasenjin