Looking at Women, Looking at War
戦争の只中で書かれた断片的な記録を、死後に編み直した構成が強い余韻を生む。未完であることがむしろ切迫感と誠実さを際立たせていると評価されている。
作品情報
終わり切らない記録が、戦争の現在形を突きつける。
ロシアの侵攻下で、作者が見つめた女性たちと戦争犯罪の記録を集めたノンフィクション。死後に編集された断片的な手記や証言が、戦争の現実を切実に伝える。
レビュー要約
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断片をつなぎ合わせた構成が、戦時の混乱と個人の記憶を強く伝えると評価されている。完結しないこと自体が、かえって現実の厳しさを伝えるという受け止め方が多い。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- William Collins
- 発売日
- 2025-02-13
- ページ数
- 320ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.9 x 3.3 x 24 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780008727505
- ISBN-10
- 0008727503
- 価格
- 4690 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/History/Europe/Ukraine
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD 'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman’s heroism' Philippa Gregory 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. Then 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. Whena 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.
Victoria Amelina 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 Irish Times , Dublin Review of Books , and Eurozine .
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No fiction would make me cry more than this did
I cried reading this. Peace and Justice for Ukraine.
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What a brave woman So admirable
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Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina is a haunting, posthumous diary of the Ukrainian resistance. Before she was tragically killed in a Russian missile strike, Amelina transitioned from novelist to war crimes researcher, documenting the lives of women—librarians, soldiers, and activists—refusing to be silenced. #VictoriaAmelina #Ukraine #LookingAtWomenLookingAtWar #NewReads #Justice ForVictoria
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Heroic and a warning. Also, a brilliant piece of editing.
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I read every page barely breathing. Victoria Amelina’s words cut deep — her reflections on each woman, their stories, their pain, her own thoughts — they stay with you. I feel a responsibility to remember every detail, so I never become numb to the truth: Russia is a terrorist state. We lost one of Ukraine’s brightest literary voices far too soon. Her final book is a powerful, unforgettable tribute to resilience and truth. I highly recommend it. Read it. Remember it.
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This book is a must read. Her story is so incredibly sad. I bought another copy for a friend and he liked it very much. Remember her and give her a voice by buying the book and reading it.
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