Chorea

Debut novel by Marina Kochan







ORIGINAL TITLE:    Хорея    
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER:    NoAge/Est smysl, 2023
192 PAGES
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“In 1987, Dad goes to Chernobyl for the first time. Somewhere in a deserted Ukrainian village, he cuts the contaminated soil into puffs of disintegrating pieces, packing them into transparent bags, like a detective sorting evidence. He is not wearing a hazmat suit – there weren’t enough even for the liquidators and the medics. There's only a respirator mask. Did he wear it? The contaminated soil looks the same as the healthy. Its wounds are invisible, you cannot feel them. Human wounds fester, but the contaminated earth absorbs everything.”



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