A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

- Authors
- Lewycka, Marina
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non Classics)
- Tags
- romance , contemporary , general , humour , psychological , historical , fiction
- ISBN
- 9780143036746
- Date
- 2005-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.26 MB
- Lang
- en
From The New Yorker:
"In this comic first novel, two estranged sisters living in England discover that their addled elderly father, a Ukrainian war refugee and expert on tractors, is planning to marry a young, enormous-breasted woman who sees his modest pension as her ticket to capitalist comfort. The sisters put aside their differences, and embark on a spirited campaign to save him from boil-in-the-bag dinners, slovenly housekeeping, and such extravagant purchases as a broken-down Rolls-Royce. In the midst of these machinations—which include long-winded letters to solicitors, venomous gossip, and all-out spying—Lewycka stealthily reveals how the depredations of the past century dictate what a family can bear."
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