by Marina Lewycka · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141020525
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«A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian» is Marina Lewycka's comic novel, published by Penguin in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Two estranged sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, join forces when their father, a widowed Ukrainian engineer who took refuge in England, announces he will marry Valentina, a much younger woman seeking Western comfort. The campaign to stop the wedding uncovers family secrets and a European past they preferred to forget.
Marina Lewycka's first novel, originally published in 2005, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; also longlisted for the Booker.
For reading groups and readers of British humour, contemporary fiction and family stories with a historical backdrop.
Marina Lewycka was a Ukrainian-British lecturer and novelist. Her 2005 debut comic novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, was translated into over 30 languages.
