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Victoria Belim was born and raised in Kyiv, and her second home was Poltava region. It is in these places that the events of "House with Roosters" unfold, although the author's personal geography is much wider. In the early 1990s, fifteen-year-old Victoria emigrated with her family to the USA, and after twenty years in Chicago - to Brussels. The war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine in 2014 prompted her to return to her roots.
"House with Roosters" is an autobiographical book that tells the story of a Ukrainian family to readers in 17 countries. A diary entry testified that great-grandfather Nykodym died in the 1930s in the fight for a free Ukraine, but the family never mentioned him. Victoria decides to return Nikodim to his rightful place in the family history, but everything is not so simple: relatives avoid talking about the past. And so the days pass, the garden blooms, old wounds heal, cherries ripen... and finally Victoria finds herself on the threshold of the House with Roosters - an elegant building in the heart of Poltava, a former KGB headquarters.
Victoria Belim's "House with Roosters" is a penetrating attempt to bring back the lost voices of family history, to unravel the thread of silence that stretches through generations. A book about memory, fear, and love, which turn out to be stronger than death and time.