Chernobyl Star

"And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a lamp, and fell on the third part of the rivers and on the fountains of waters. The name of this star is Wormwood..." - it is said in the Apocalypse.... 30 years ago, many remembered that an unremarkable fragrant herb of our fields - wormwood - has another name: Chernobyl...
The piercing novel by the famous Orthodox writer Yulia Voznesenskaya "Chernobyl Star" tells the stories of three sisters whose lives were overshadowed by the Chernobyl disaster and about the love that conquers fear, death, and gives hope for the future.
The work is published in Russia for the first time. Written in the best traditions of realistic Russian literature, the novel includes documentary material taken by the author from Soviet newspapers, radio reports, and television broadcasts, which makes it valuable not only as a work of art but also as a historical testimony.