Overview
Ā«Me dejĆ³ sin respiraciĆ³n. Una de las mejores autobiografĆas del aƱoĀ». āR. Tomaszewska, Virago (Reino Unido)
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En 2014, Vika regresa a su Ucrania natal para investigar un misterio familiar: cĆ³mo muriĆ³ su tĆo tatarabuelo Nikodim en la dĆ©cada de 1930 y por quĆ© su historia sigue siendo tabĆŗ casi un siglo despuĆ©s. DesentraƱar viejas incĆ³gnitas resulta complicado, pero nunca habrĆa previsto que la resistencia mĆ”s fuerte la encontrarĆa en su abuela Valentina, que le prohĆbe remover el pasado. No en vano Ucrania es Ā«tierra de sangreĀ», como sus vecinas Polonia, Bielorrusia, Rusia y los paĆses bĆ”lticos: en el Ć”rea de Poltava, donde residiĆ³ la familia, el KGB desapareciĆ³ hace ya mucho, pero su antiguo cuartel general todavĆa aterroriza a los lugareƱos.
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Mientras el paĆs se sumerge en un nuevo conflicto con Rusia tras la anexiĆ³n de Crimea, el lector acompaƱa a Vika entre los temidos archivos del KGB en busca de la verdad sobre el pasado del paĆs y sobre Nikodim, incluso a riesgo de un enfrentamiento directo con su familia.
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Entre el memoir y la novela detectivesca, esta obra conjuga su enorme carga emocional con un lĆŗcido anĆ”lisis de la historia. Al tiempo que Victoria Belim terminaba esta novela sobre una Ucrania que intentaba hacer las paces con su pasado y florecer, su tierra se enfrentaba de nuevo al dolor de otra cruel guerra.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A timely and deeply moving memoir of the authorās Ukrainian family history, interwoven with the countryās tumultuous story
In 2014, the landmarks of Victoria Belimās personal geography were plunged into tumult at the hands of Russia. Her hometown Kyiv was gripped by protests and violent suppression. Crimea, where sheād 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 Valentinaās 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 countryās tragic history of communist revolution, civil war, famine, world war, totalitarianism, and fraught independence had changed the course of their lives.
The Rooster HouseĀ is a beautifully written memoir of a family, a countryās past, and its dangerous present. It is about parents and children, true believers and victims, gardens and art, secrets and tragedy. Compulsively readable, deeply moving, and at times laugh-out-loud funny, it is a stunning debut book by an experienced, expressive, and gifted writer.
This book title, Mi Ucrania / The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story, A Memoir, ISBN: 9788426424136, by Victoria Belim, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (February 21, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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