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Author: Plokhy, Serhii

Russia

Published on 1 May 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 240 pages
197 x 128 x 13 | 182g

Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also been there for the clean-up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation; plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women’s Day despite all odds; Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors; and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook.