Marta and Other Women

What is it like to blow on wounds, to catch bullets with your hands, to survive and hold the world in your palms when you lose your closest, dearest, loved ones, and when everything around you is incredibly precarious and fragile? What is it like to search for a tourniquet and to search for words to soothe a pain that seems impossible to quell?
That is exactly what the women are doing, whom Zoia Kazanzhy writes about in her book «Marta and Other Women». They heal wounds, they love, remember, and wait; they grow strong wings for themselves, even if the war painfully scorches those wings. There are many such women today: one drives a car full of sleeping bags, another evacuates children to save them, still another can take out a tank, even though she used to only know how to dance, and one more is ready to bury her heart where their loved ones are supposed to return. This book is about them and more — about their unbreakable spirit and strength in the darkest of times.