Störfall

By Christa Wolf

Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chernobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986, Fiction, general, Ukraine, fiction, Fiction, Conto Alemao, History, Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl,́ Ukraine, 1986

Description: An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis.