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- A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Powerful . . . a coming-of-age story with a twist' Guardian 'Heart-wrenching . . . We need accounts like this haunting, compelling book' Telegraph 'A profound and moving tribute . . . It is Lana's inside perspective on what it was like to grow up within this society that makes this such a unique and powerful book' Sunday Times 'Wonderfully brave, beautifully written and utterly authentic' TLS 'Haunting' Radio Times 'Please live' were the last words fifteen-year-old Lana said to her mother. Shortly afterwards Natalia Estemirova was kidnapped outside their apartment block in Grozny, Chechnya. On 15th July 2009, she was murdered for telling the truth. A mountainous sliver of land which creates a natural boundary between Europe and Asia, for centuries Chechnya had been a sharp bone in Russia's throat. Three years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, frustrated by the continued presence of the independence movement within Chechnya, Russia invaded. It was a war of extraordinary brutality. It turned Lana's mother, Natalia Estemirova, from a teacher into a human rights investigator. She became a dedicated member of Memorial, intent on exposing the kidnappings, bombings, torture and murders committed by Russian forces and Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed Chechen President. Natalia Estemirova's life, assassination, and the impunity that followed it, tell the story of Putin's Russia. This is Lana's story of growing up in a war. Of the intense bond between a mother and daughter, desperate to be together even though it was so much safer for Lana to live elsewhere, often for months at a time. It is a book both about being brave and about being ordinary in extraordinary times. It's the fulfilment of a promise Lana made at her mother's grave.
- About The Author
- Lana Estemirova was raised in Chechnya. She produces the podcast Trouble with the Truth. Formerly a freelance journalist for the Guardian and the Moscow Times, she has also worked for the Justice for Journalists Foundation, a London-based charity which fights against attacks on the media. Lana studied International Relations at the London School of Economics, and she currently lives in Lisbon with her husband and daughter.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399811620
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- John Murray, (19 June 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 480 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 236 x 156 x 32 mm
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