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When their recently widowed father announces he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realise they must put aside a lifetime of feuding in order to save him. His new love is a voluptuous gold-digger from the Ukraine half his age, with a proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, who stops at nothing in her single minded pursuit of the luxury Western lifestyle she dreams of. But the old man, too, is pursuing his eccentric dreams - and writing a history of tractors in Ukrainian. A wise, tender and deeply funny novel about families, the healing of old wounds, the trials and consolations of old age and - really - about the legacy of Europe's history over the last fifty years.
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A short history of tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
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- Released
- 2006
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marina Lewycka
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0141020520
- ISBN13
- 9780141020525
- Series
- Collection
- Penguin fiction
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Humor, Love, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Military Fiction, Relationships, Wars, World War II, England, Society, Marriage, Family relationships, Genealogy, Sisters, Weddings, Father, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Migration, Immigration, Generations, Generational Differences, Immigrants, Tractors
- First published
- 2004
- Original title
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
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- When their recently widowed father announces he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realise they must put aside a lifetime of feuding in order to save him. His new love is a voluptuous gold-digger from the Ukraine half his age, with a proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, who stops at nothing in her single minded pursuit of the luxury Western lifestyle she dreams of. But the old man, too, is pursuing his eccentric dreams - and writing a history of tractors in Ukrainian. A wise, tender and deeply funny novel about families, the healing of old wounds, the trials and consolations of old age and - really - about the legacy of Europe's history over the last fifty years.