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In 1987 Gudrun Pausewang responded to the Chernobyl disaster by constructing her anti-nuclear novel Die Wolke, around a fictitious accident in a real German nuclear power station at Grafenrheinfeld, Pausewang did not find it easy to write such a horrific scenario: Um ein Haar hatte ich etwa nach der Halfte aufgehort weiterzuschreiben, she writes, and yet she completed the novel. The book is part of a series and contains the text of Die Wolke, an introduction on the background to the incident, notes and a follow-up section in German, the Arbeitsteil, which is intended to enhance language skills.