維多利亞．貝林姆《公雞之家: 從被消失的家族成員追溯一個烏克蘭家族的百年離合, 在尋找自我的碎片中回望邊境之國的記憶與哀愁》 ✰ 紐約時報、衛報專文報導 ✰ 祖母的定情地哈爾科夫、父親過去的工作地點頓內茨克、母女一同買櫻桃樹的馬里烏波爾⋯烏克蘭裔記者貝林姆的人生地標已淪為戰場，但她仍決定返鄉揭開曾祖父日記中的謎題⋯ 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.