{"product_id":"the-rooster-house-by-victoria-belim-9780349017341","title":"The Rooster House","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRadio 4 Book of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'A beautiful insight into a nation beyond war headlines'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'A captivating family memoir spanning four generations... Belim blends the personal and the historical to tell a moving, century-long tale of fear, hardship and resilience'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe i\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Wild swans for Ukraine... an enthralling, multilayered family story, told across four generations. Rich and magnificent. A marvel'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eBookseller\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2014, while the Russian state was annexing Crimea, Victoria Belim 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVictoria became obsessed with recovering his story. In the end, her winding search took her back to the place she had always known it would—to \u003ci\u003eThe Rooster House\u003c\/i\u003e, an elegant mansion in the Ukrainian city of Poltava with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door, and dark truths contained in its basement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833727439084,"sku":"9780349017341","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6626933482312.jpg?v=1758477375","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-rooster-house-by-victoria-belim-9780349017341","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}