Midnight in Chernobyl

【Editor's Choice】

★Nearly 30,000 people on the famous reading website Goodreads scored a high score of 4.38, praising "Midnight in Chernobyl" as one of the best non-fiction books you can read".

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★Pulitzer Prize winner, Anne Applebaum, author of "The Gulag: A History" and other top European and American writers and scholars;

Craig Mazin, creator of the famous HBO drama "Chernobyl": I feel very sorry that I couldn't read this book before filming started.

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History's worst disaster is brought to life, while also giving us a bewildering glimpse into the everyday events of the final years of the Soviet Union.

—Anne Applebaum (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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An invaluable contribution to history, this book is brilliantly told about such a compelling story about Chernobyl.

— Shahili Ploki

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★Chernobyl, an eternal nightmare in the history of human civilization: authoritative reporters have conducted in-depth investigations for more than ten years, hundreds of hours of interview recordings, and a large number of files, letters, and memoirs have been exposed for the first time, showing a panoramic view of this devastating nuclear disaster in our era the whole process:

The author, Adam Higginbotham, is a senior reporter at The New Yorker, and his ability to control stories and dig out and use materials is first-rate. The whole book is carefully annotated and explained in detail, with more than 100 pages of annotations alone. The solid and rigorous materials used are comparable to academic works, and the readability is comparable to thriller novels.

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★Captures both science and humanity in a story of megalomaniac and doomed failure; there are no unsung heroes here, everyone has a face:

There are a lot of characterizations in the book, which is the story obtained by the author after more than ten years of interviewing the witnesses of the disaster. These people have long been forgotten by their country and compatriots. Among them, there are various senior officials of the Soviet Union, there are "whistleblowers", rescue heroes, medical personnel, accident liquidators, and people who will stand on the bench in the future .

The author focuses on the people involved and how they make difficult choices in the face of sudden disasters. It represents a cross-section of Soviet society and exposes the cowardice and bravery of individual human beings. What is finally obtained is a A story more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet saga.

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★More distressing than any horror movie, more thrilling than any thriller novel;

Despite the vast amount of information provided, this book is not daunting. The author's broad vision, exquisite conception, and precise grasp of details make every step of the story full of tension. The thriller-like narrative style makes this book Very readable.

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★Win the annual list of many first-line media in Europe and America: "Kirkus Book Review" Best Non-Fiction of the Year, "New York Times" and "Time Magazine" Book of the Year, 2020 Andrew Carnegie Award;

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【brief introduction】

It took Adam Higginbotham years of hard work to finally complete this definitive book about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A powerful investigation in this book reveals how the truth about one of the greatest disasters of the twentieth century was concealed by a combination of political propaganda, secrecy and rumors.

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In the early hours of April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Atomic Power Plant exploded, triggering the worst nuclear disaster in history. In the three decades since then, Chernobyl has gradually become a haunting nightmare for the entire world: the haunting threat of radiation poisoning, the great risk of a dangerous technology getting out of control, the fragility of the ecosystem , and the harm done to its own people and to the world at large. However, the truth of the accident has been covered up from the very beginning, and there have been different opinions for a long time.

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Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews over a decade, along with correspondence, unpublished memoirs, and newly declassified archival documents, Adam Higginbotham brings together those who lived the disaster as they witnessed it. Everything, turned into an objective, calm and thought-provoking narrative. The result is a thrilling masterpiece of nonfiction, a story more complex, human and terrifying than the Soviet saga.