@isabeltranslates.bsky.socialChernobyl Prayer, Svetlana Alexievich, trs. @annagunin.bsky.social & Arch Tait.
My final #WomenInTranslationMonth read (started in August; it counts!) & wow. I don't understand how something so harrowing & devastating can also be so gorgeous. A tour de force – hats off to the translators!
💙📚 #xl8
![Photo of the front cover of the book Chernobyl Prayer, by Svetlana Alexievich.
The top third is white, with the publisher's logo (Penguin) and author's name in pale blue, the title and the words 'Winner of the Nobel Prize in [sic] Literature' in black. The image below shows a blurred view from a dirty window spattered with rain – a blurred grey object stands to the left, blocking two-thirds of the window, with some green and a hint of sky visible to the right. A butterfly or moth, in focus, sits on the window towards the bottom left.
The names of the translators, Anna Gunin and Arch Tait, are not mentioned.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:rfdmmenc4uwyfqkrcctx2hta/bafkreifnfswkfwnsbcdgipki5pv6khfomjxrxtvec44khkyl5zppvtuqyu@jpeg)