Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
“Devastating…not to be overlooked.” ―Publishers Weekly (Starred)
Destined to be a classic, a poet’s powerful observe the braveness of resistance
WITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOOD
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina turned into busy writing a singular, taking component inside the us of a’s literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she have become a person new: a conflict crimes researcher and the chronicler of super girls like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines consist of Evgenia, a prominent legal professional became soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of lots of warfare crimes and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, and Yulia, a librarian who helped discover the kidnapping and homicide of a kids’s ebook creator.
Everyone in Ukraine knew that Amelina was documenting the conflict. She photographed the ruins of schools and cultural centers; she recorded the tales of survivors and eyewitnesses to atrocities. And she slowly became back into a storyteller, writing what would grow to be this book.
On the nighttime of June 27th, 2023, Amelina and 3 international writers stopped for dinner inside the embattled Donetsk location. When a Russian cruise missile hit the eating place, Amelina suffered grievous head injuries, and misplaced attention. She died on July 1st. She changed into thirty-seven. She left at the back of an extraordinary account of the ravages of war and the price of resistance. Honest, intimate, and wry, this e-book may be celebrated as a conventional.