| International Standard Book Number |
9780593537480
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593537483
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| Personal Name |
Hercules, Olia, author.
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| Title Statement |
Strong roots : a memoir of food, family, and Ukraine / Olia Hercules.
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| Edition Statement |
First U.S. hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
vii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue -- Borsch in Italy -- The great hush -- Three thousand eggs -- The night beauty -- The language of the nightingales -- A lesson about freedom -- Asret -- The world before the dam -- Epilogue.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification, to Olia's grandmother's deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her aunt Zhenia's school protest, to her own parents' flight from Ukraine when their village was occupied in 2022. This is an ode to the land, to ideas of home and belonging, and to family stories and recipes passed down the generations--the tang of sour cherries, the best way to make borsch. It is an account of resilience in the hardest of circumstances. Strong Roots brims with hope and fear. It lays bare the compromises and betrayals of generations struggling and surviving through war, peace, invasion and exile. It is an uplifting reminder of how much the human spirit can endure when born from a land rich with strong roots"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Hercules, Olia.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Hercules, Olia
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Hercules, Olia Ukraine.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ukraine History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ukraine History 21st century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ukraine Social conditions 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ukraine Social conditions 21st century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ukraine Social life and customs 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ukraine Social life and customs 21st century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Other Edition Entry |
Hercules, Olia. Strong roots London : Bloomsbury, 2025 9781526662927.
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