{"product_id":"looking-at-women-looking-at-war-a-war-and-justice-diary-9781250367686","title":"Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER, THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING\u003cbr\u003eWITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOOD\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable...powerful, eloquently testifying to the horrific consequences of this conflict.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Unsparing and impossible-to-forget... its shape and urgency dictated by war and by its author's shining life so abruptly shredded into night.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An effortlessly compelling voice, simultaneously intimate and universal.\" --\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOW A \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOOD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Amelina\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDublin Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEurozine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51187533152530,"sku":"9781250367686","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0779ca03-3d9d-47ab-afc6-2c02af061c31.jpg?v=1756798904","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/looking-at-women-looking-at-war-a-war-and-justice-diary-9781250367686","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}