A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

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<p><b><i>A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian</i></b> <b>is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. </b><br><br><i>'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.' </i><br><br>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 green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth.<br><br>But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . .<br><br><b>'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer' <i>Time Out<br></i><br>'Hugely enjoyable . . . yields a golden harvest of family truths' <i>Daily Telegraph<br></i><br>'Delightful, funny, touching' </b><i><b>Spectator</b><br></i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241981443

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

180 x 108 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd