"A sharply funny, and unexpectedly tender novel about family, migration, and the messy complexities of love. "
When two feuding sisters reunite to stop their eccentric widowed father from marrying a glamorous, much younger Ukrainian woman, chaos unfolds. But so does a deeper understanding of who they are and where they come from.
Lewycka blends humour with heartbreak effortlessly, offering witty observations about ageing, identity and immigrant life, all wrapped in a story that is as entertaining as it is emotionally insightful. It's clever, warm, and wonderfully human.
| Primary Genre | Feel-Good Fiction |
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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
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian features in the following genres: Feel-Good Fiction, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Fiction
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is available in CD-Audio, , Paperback
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was written by Marina Lewycka and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian has 325 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Essentials series
£8.99
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