Looking at Women, Looking at War - Victoria Amelina

WINNER, THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGSHORT LIST, THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITINGWITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOODA NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR BOOKS WE LOVE, 2025"Remarkable...powerful, eloquently testifying to the horrific consequences of this conflict." -New York Times Book Review"Unsparing and impossible-to-forget... its shape and urgency dictated by war and by its author's shining life so abruptly shredded into night." -The Telegraph"An effortlessly compelling voice, simultaneously intimate and universal." -Financial TimesNOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER WITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOODWhen 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
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