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Dawn on 26 April 1986 finds the residents of Pripyat sleeping, quarrelling, flirting or struggling with their demons, at the moment reactor No. 4 of the 'V. I. Lenin' nuclear power plant explodes. Against an event that divided before from after forever, the daily lives of the unsuspecting inhabitants of Chernobyl's satellite town reach a turning point. Personal stories and narrations seen through others' eyes intertwine, as the past mixes with the present and the future of the characters; some questions are answered and some left hanging. Memory dominates this novel in linked stories: how the lived past speaks with what the present foreshadows.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

168 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine, 1986

First published

2019 by Κίχλη

ISBN

9786185004842 (original)