From the Book - First edition.
Prologue: solitary human voice
Part one: land of the dead
About what can be talked about with the living and the dead
About a whole life written down on doors
About what radiation looks like
About a song without words
About how a person is only clever and refined in evil
Part two: land of the living: about old prophecies
About a moonlit landscape
About a man whose tooth was hurting when he saw Christ fall
About how we can't live without Chekhov and Tolstoy
Part three: amazed by sadness: about what we didn't know: death can be so beautiful
About the shovel and the atom
About taking measurements
About how the frightening things in life happen quietly and naturally
About freedom and the dream of an ordinary death
About the shadow of death
By a defender of the soviet government
About the limitless power one person can have over another
About why we love Chernobyl