Chernobyl: The Poisoned Dawn - Softcover

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Chernobyl: The Poisoned Dawn

On an ordinary April night in 1986, a routine safety test inside a Soviet power station goes catastrophically wrong, and within minutes, a city of fifty thousand people begins living the last hours of the only life it has ever known.

Told through the eyes of a young reactor engineer who cannot outrun the light he witnessed rising into the sky, the wife who waits four days for a truth no one will speak aloud, the supervisor who must decide what his signature is actually worth, the doctor who keeps writing when she is told to stop, and the colonel who holds a stopwatch steady through the worst weeks of his men's lives, this novel follows one family and the strangers whose fates become bound to theirs, from the last untroubled evening before disaster to the decades of exile, reckoning, and quiet endurance that follow.

Spanning three acts, from the calm before the fire to the fallout and finally the long reckoning, this is a story about ordinary people asked to carry an extraordinary weight, and about the stubborn, unglamorous courage it takes to tell the truth when silence would be so much easier.

A story of catastrophe, conscience, and the love that outlasts even the worst a system can ask of it.

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