“And a great star fell from the sky, blazing like a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters. The name of this star is ‘wormwood’...” So it says in the Apocalypse. Thirty years ago many remembered that our fields’ inconspicuous fragrant herb—wormwood—has another name too: Chornobyl...
The piercing novel by the famous Orthodox writer Yulia Voznesenskaya “Star of Chornobyl” tells the story of three sisters whose lives were shattered by the Chornobyl disaster, and of love that conquers fear, death, and gives hope for the future. This work is being published in Russia for the first time. Written in the best traditions of realistic Russian literature, the novel also includes documentary material the author took from Soviet newspapers, radio and television broadcasts—so it is valuable not only as a work of fiction, but also as a historical testimony.