| Author |
Amelina, Viktorii︠a︡, author.
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| Title |
Looking at women looking at war : a war and justice diary / Victoria Amelina ; with a foreword by Margaret Atwood. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Publication Info. |
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.
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©2025 |
| Description |
xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Content Type |
text |
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still image |
| Media Type |
unmediated |
| Carrier Type |
volume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The time of choices -- Looking for my way -- Living the war -- Answers and victories. |
| Summary |
"When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country's literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier; Oleksandra, who documented tens of thousands of war crimes and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2022; and Yulia, a librarian who helped uncover the abduction and murder of a children's book author. Everyone in Ukraine knew that Amelina was documenting the war. She photographed the ruins of schools and cultural centers; she recorded the testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses to atrocities. And she slowly turned back into a storyteller, writing what would become this book. On the evening of June 27, 2023, Amelina and three international writers stopped for dinner in the embattled Donetsk region. When a Russian cruise missile hit the restaurant, Amelina suffered grievous head injuries, and lost consciousness. She died on July 1. She was 37. She left behind an incredible account of the ravages of war and the cost of resistance. Honest, intimate, and wry, this book will be celebrated as a classic"--Provided by publisher. |
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