The Rooster House : a Ukrainian family secret
Belim, Victoria2024
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In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the 1980s, her great-grandmother would take pains to avoid walking past it. In 2014, while the Russian state was annexing Crimea, Victoria visited her grandmother in Bereh, the hamlet near Poltava that was a haven in her childhood. Just before the trip she came across her great-grandfather's diary, one page scored deep with the single line: 'Brother Nikodim, vanished in the 1930s fighting for a free Ukraine.' She had never heard of this uncle and no one - especially her grandmother - seemed willing to tell her about him. Victoria became obsessed with recovering his story, and returned to her birth country again and again in pursuit of it.
Main title:
The Rooster House : a Ukrainian family secret / Victoria Belim.
Author:
Belim, Victoria, author
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2024.
Collation:
304 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780349017341 (pbk)
Dewey class:
947.70841092947.7084
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
736236