Large print book
Looking at women looking at war : a war and justice diary
Edition
Large print edition.
Publication Information
[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2025.
Physical Description
501 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"--
Contents
- Foreword / by Margaret Atwood
- Editor's note
- What is this book?
- Part I: The time of choices
- Part II: Looking for my way
- Part III: Living the war
- Part IV: Answers and victories
- Afterword: Empty pages
- Appendix: Fragments.