LEADER 00000pam 2200301 i 4500 005 20230905081636.0 008 230614r20232023nyua e 000 0ceng d 010 bl2023021723 020 9781419767852|qhc. 040 NjBwBT|beng|erda|cNjBwBT|dGCmBT|dUtOrBLW 043 e-un--- 082 04 947.708/40922|aB|223 092 947.7084|bBEL 100 1 Belim, Victoria,|eauthor. 245 14 The Rooster House :|bmy Ukrainian family story /|cVictoria Belim. 264 1 New York :|bAbrams Press,|c2023. 300 xiv, 286 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 336 text|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|2rdamedia 338 volume|2rdacarrier 520 "In 2014, the landmarks of Victoria Belim's personal geography were plunged into tumult at the hands of Russia. Her hometown Kyiv was gripped by protests and violent suppression. Crimea, where she'd once been sent to school to avoid radiation from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, was invaded. Kharkiv, where her grandmother Valentina studied economics and fell in love; Donetsk, where her father once worked; and Mariupol, where she and her mother bought a cherry tree for Valentina's garden all became battlegrounds. A naturalized American citizen then living in Brussels, Belim felt she had to go back. She had to spend time with her aging grandmother and her cousin Dima. She had to unravel a family mystery spanning several generations. And she needed to understand how her country's tragic history of communist revolution, civil war, famine, world war, totalitarianism, and fraught independence had changed the course of their lives"-- |cProvided by publisher. 600 10 Belim, Victoria|xFamily. 651 0 Ukraine|vBiography. 651 0 Ukraine|xHistory|y20th century. 655 7 Biographies.|2lcgft 775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aBelim, Victoria. |tRooster House|dLondon : Virago, 2023|z9780349017334
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