The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir
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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. In the end, after
years of sifting through Ukraine's post-Soviet bureaucracy, after
travelling to tiny, ruined villages and speaking to the wizened
survivors of that era, her winding search took her back to the
place she had always known it would - to the Rooster House, and the
dark truths contained in its basement. 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, The
Rooster House 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.
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