{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-tractors-in-ukrainian","title":"Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian [2006] paperback","description":"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainianis bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. 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.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer'  Time Out\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hugely enjoyable...yields a golden harvest of family truths' Daily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Delightful, funny, touching'  Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBestselling author Marina Lewkyca has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her hilarious first novelA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainianin 2005, which was the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 2005, winner of the Saga Award for Wit 2005, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 and longlisted for the Booker prize 2005. Her other humorous novels Two Caravans(published asStrawberry Fieldsin the USA and Canada),We Are All Made of Glueand Various Pets Alive and Deadare also available from Penguin.","brand":"Lewycka, Marina","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50878052172115,"sku":"9780141020525","price":10.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47130085359955,"sku":"XG80141020525","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47142626885971,"sku":"XV80141020525","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/lewycka-marina-marina-lewycka-a-short-history-of-tractors-in-ukrainian-2006-paperback-1159873345.jpg?v=1745954006","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/a-short-history-of-tractors-in-ukrainian","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}