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hi hammer here and welcome to this week's sunday chops in which i'm talking to

author victoria belem about her new nonfiction book the rooster house a

ukrainian family history victoria lived in ukrain for the first 15 years of her

life while it was still part of the soviet union her family then moved to the

us and as an adult victoria moved to belgium she began writing this book back in

2014 and sadly ukrain has become much more of a hot topic since then that

interview is just coming up so i'm not going to tell you what's in it

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wherever it is you listen to your podcasts we've got some great interviews

coming up including not one but two members of the smacked the pony team

Mickey's been chatting to fiona alan and i've got a phone call scheduled next week

with do mckeken exciting times enjoy the rest of the weekend whatever it is

you're going to be doing and if that's going to be starting reading the rooster house

the good news is it's available now in all good bookshops

hello Hannah here i am joined by victoria belem writer journalist and translator of Persian literature

and poetry also of a new book the rooster house a ukrainian family memoir which is about

the search for answers to family mysteries in ukrain thank you so much for joining us

victoria thank you very much it's a pleasure to be here

so i filmed your book yesterday i found it really really fascinating

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