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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Marina Lewycka
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Paperback. Good clear copy with some minor shelf wear
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainianis bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel. 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.' Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for ... Read more
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainianis bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel. 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.' Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
Used, Very Good
Weight
340g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141020525
SKU
KIN0031898
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Ref
99-1
About Marina Lewycka
Marina Lewycka lives in Sheffield with her husband and daughter, and teaches at Sheffield Hallam University.
Reviews for A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer
Time Out
More than just a jolly romp with political undertones is the way it captures the peculiar flavour of Eastern European immigrant life . . . a very rich mixture indeed, as well as very ... Read more
Time Out
More than just a jolly romp with political undertones is the way it captures the peculiar flavour of Eastern European immigrant life . . . a very rich mixture indeed, as well as very ... Read more