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2019 non-fiction book by Adam Higginbotham

First edition (publ. Simon & Schuster)

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019) by Adam Higginbotham is a history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986. It won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2020. Higginbotham spent more than a decade interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing documents from the disaster, including some that were recently declassified. Higginbotham considers it the first English-language account that is close to the truth.

Reception

According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on 10 critic reviews with 6 being "rave" and 2 being "positive" and 1 being "mixed" and 1 being "pan". In Books in the Media, a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received 4.18 out of 5 from the site which was based on 6 critic reviews. On Bookmarks Magazine May/June 2019 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a 4.0 out of 5 based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Higginbotham meticulously documents the details of this disaster and its aftermath in a narrative that the New York Times critic attests is “superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying” and unfurls with a “horrible inevitability."

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ Dawn Stover (May 5, 2019). "The human drama of Chernobyl". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  2. "Midnight in Chernobyl". Book Marks. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  3. "Midnight in Chernobyl Reviews". Books in the Media. Archived from the original on 1 Dec 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  4. "Midnight in Chernobyl" (PDF). Bookmarks Magazine. p. 33. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  5. Jennifer Szalai (February 6, 2019). "An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl". The New York Times. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  6. Associated Press (March 24, 2020). "Valeria Luiselli's 'Lost Children Archive' wins Folio Prize". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Archived from the original on December 26, 2023. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
  7. Schaub, Michael (January 22, 2020). "Luiselli, Higginbotham Win ALA's Carnegie Medals". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on December 26, 2023. Retrieved December 26, 2023.


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