Short version of the book in 11 pages. Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich is a book that has been written for 20 years. It collects various human stories that tell the tragedy that happened on April 26, 1986. For pain, fears, loss, grief, death, the Chernobyl Prayer is a large-scale work designed to remember - not only the sinners, but also the victims, the heroes, the living and the dead....