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Title Statement | Looking at women looking at war: a war and justice diary / Victoria Amelina ; with a foreword by Margaret Atwood. |
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Author | Amelina, Viktorii︠a︡ |
Additional Contributors | Atwood, Margaret,1939- |
Publication | New York: St. Martin's Press,2025. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | xi, 304 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781250367686 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07724843 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | "Destined to be a classic, a poet's powerful look at the courage of resistance 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 27th, 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 1st. She was thirty-seven. 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"-- |
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By Topic | Authors, Ukrainian--Diaries--20th century |
Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014---Personal narratives | |
By Name | Amelina, Viktorii︠a︡ |
By Genre | Diaries |
Biographies | |
Personal narratives |