by Marina Lewycka · Fig Tree · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241961827
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In this moving and funny novel, Marina Lewycka introduces us to two sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who must put aside their differences to save their widowed father from a voluptuous Ukrainian woman named Valentina, obsessed with wealth. As they try to thwart Valentina's plans, the sisters discover family secrets and a European and Ukrainian history they would rather forget. A story about family relationships, secrets of the past, and the search for identity.
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.
