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"Two days 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." When their recently widowed father announces he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realize 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 luxurious 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
- Language
- Released
- 2005
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- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €2.88
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marina Lewycka
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 324
- ISBN10
- 0670915947
- ISBN13
- 9780670915941
- Series
- 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
- Description
- "Two days 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." When their recently widowed father announces he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realize 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 luxurious 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.