{"product_id":"the-rooster-house-victoria-belim-9781419767852","title":"The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story, a Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA timely and deeply moving memoir of a Ukrainian family and the country's tumultuous history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands an elegant mansion known as the Rooster House, thanks to the 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, because the Rooster House was home to the secret police. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ​Victoria grew up in Ukraine, moved abroad to the United States, then on to Europe. But in 2014, when Russian annexed Crimea and the landmarks of her personal geography--Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Mariupol--were plunged into violence and tumult, she felt she had to go back. She had to visit her aging grandmother, and at the same time, she became obsessed with unraveling a family mystery spanning several generations, sparked by a line in her great-grandfather's diary: \"Brother Nikodim, vanished in the 1930s fighting for a free Ukraine.\" It was an investigation that could only lead one place: to the Rooster House. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspired by the author's love for her family, and peopled by warm, larger-than-life characters who jostle alongside the ghostly absences of others, \u003ci\u003eThe Rooster House\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a riveting journey into the complex history of a wounded country and a profoundly moving tribute to hope and the refusal of despair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Belim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1419767852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781419767852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry N. Abrams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/07\/2023","brand":"Victoria Belim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079804416255,"sku":"9781419767852","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a87affad-b516-4679-9a14-33c1baed6bf3.jpg?v=1685483238","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-rooster-house-victoria-belim-9781419767852","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}