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Looking at women looking at war a war and justice diary

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. She p...

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Main Author: Amelina, Viktorii͡a (Author)
Other Authors: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.
Edition:[Hardcover edition].
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Amelina, Viktorii͡a, > Diaries.
Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- > Personal narratives.
Authors, Ukrainian > 20th century > Diaries.
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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. She photographed the ruins of schools and cultural centers; she recorded the testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses to atrocities. 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. This book is an incredible account of the ravages of war and the cost of resistance.
Physical Description:xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781250367686
9781250367686 : HRD
Author Notes:Victoria Amelina was killed by a Russian missile in July, 2023. She was an award-winning Ukrainian novelist, essayist, poet, and human rights activist whose prose and poems have been translated into many languages. In 2019/2020 she lived and traveled extensively in the US. She wrote both in Ukrainian and English, and her essays have appeared in Irish Times , Dublin Review of Books , and Eurozine . Her 2025 book, Looking at Women, Looking at War , with a Foreword by Margaret Atwood, was a USA Today bestseller and won The Orwell Prize for Political Writing; it is on the Long-list for the 2025 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing.

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