EAN: 9780241981443

A SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIAN - MARI...

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and
award winning debut novel  now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. '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 green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine  she will stop at nothing in
her pursuit of Western wealth.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 . . .'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka
is a seriously talented comic writer' Time Out'Hugely enjoyable . . . yields a golden harvest
of family truths' Daily Telegraph'Delightful  funny  touching' Spectator

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