Victoria Amelina
autor
Looking at Women, Looking at War
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.
Ktosi, alebo vodné srdce
Nádherný a mimoriadne dojímavý príbeh, v ktorom sa autorka aj ilustrátorka dotýkajú otázky sebareflexie a samoty. Príbeh, ktorý kladie otázky a núti rozmýšľať nad tým, kto som a čo je môj sen. Celý dej sa odohráva vo veľkom akváriu, veľkom a okrúhlom ako naša planéta. Akvárium stojí doma u smutného pána, ktorý sa nikdy neusmieva. Zaujímavý a pokojný dej o skutočných pocitoch a túžbe učiť sa priateľskej podpore poukazuje na osamelosť a hľadanie priateľov. Deti sa dozvedia aj ďalšie zaujímavé informácie o obyvateľoch podmorského sveta.
Dôležitou stránkou tejto knihy je jej ilustračná zložka, tmavo modrá stupnica je úplne dokonalá a ponorí vás do vodného sveta.