From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union by Cengel, Katya

From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781640122048)

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From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union by Cengel, Katya

From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union

$29.95
From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union by Cengel, Katya

From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Award Finalist
2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Gold for Autobiography & Memoir
Bronze Medal winner in the Independent Book Publishers Awards

In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late twentieth century was a time of unprecedented hope for democracy and freedom in Eastern Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union left in its wake a number of independent countries and Communist propaganda was being displaced by Western ideals of a free press. Young writers, journalists, and adventurers such as Katya Cengel flocked from the West eastward to cities like Prague and Budapest, seeking out terra nova. Despite the region's appeal, neither Kyiv in Ukraine nor Riga in Latvia was the type of place you would expect to find a twenty-two-year-old Californian just out of college. Kyiv was too close to Moscow. Riga was too small to matter--and too cold. But Cengel ended up living and working in both. This book is her remarkable story.

Cengel first took a job at the Baltic Times just seven years after Latvia regained its independence. The idea of a free press in the Eastern Bloc was still so promising that she ultimately moved to Ukraine. From there Cengel made several trips to Chernobyl, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster. It was at Chernobyl that she met her fiancé, but as she fell in love, Ukraine collapsed into what would become the Orange Revolution, bringing it to the brink of political disintegration and civil war. Ultimately, this fall of idealism in the East underscores Cengel's own loss of innocence. From Chernobyl with Love is an indelible portrait of this historical epoch and a memoir of the highest order.

Author: Katya Cengel
ISBN-10: 1640122044
ISBN-13: 9781640122048
Publisher: Potomac Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 5.40h x 11.50w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019
Foreword 10/26/2019
Shelf Awareness 11/22/2019
By Katya Cengel
By Katya Cengel
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Katya Cengel is a freelance writer based in San Luis Obispo, California, and lectures in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She is the author of Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back (Potomac Books, 2023) and Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life (Nebraska, 2012).

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