House with Roosters - 9786178566432
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Victoria Belim was born and raised in Kyiv, while Poltava became her second home. It is in these places that the events of The House with the Roosters unfold, although the author’s personal geography is much broader. In the early 1990s, fifteen-year-old Victoria emigrated to the United States with her family, and after twenty years in Chicago, she moved to Brussels. The war launched by Russia against Ukraine in 2014 prompted her to return to her roots. The House with the Roosters is an autobiographical book that tells the story of a Ukrainian family to readers in 17 countries. A diary entry stated that her great-grandfather, Nikodim, had died in the 1930s fighting for a free Ukraine, but no one in the family ever mentioned him. Victoria decides to restore Nikodim to his rightful place in the family history, but it is not that simple: her relatives avoid talking about the past. And so the days pass, the garden blooms, old wounds heal, cherries ripen... and eventually Victoria finds herself at the threshold of the house with the roosters—a stately building in the heart of Poltava that once housed the KGB. Victoria Belim’s The House with the Roosters is a poignant attempt to restore the lost voices of family history, to unravel the thread…
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