{ "item_title" : "Looking at Women Looking at War", "item_author" : [" Victoria Amelina", "Margaret Atwood "], "item_description" : "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, 2025Remarkable...powerful, eloquently testifying to the horrific consequences of this conflict. --New York Times Book ReviewUnsparing 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 BESTSELLERWITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOOD 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.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/25/036/768/1250367689_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "29.00", "online_price" : "29.00", "our_price" : "29.00", "club_price" : "29.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "29.00" } }

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