by Marina Lewycka · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143113553
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«Strawberry Fields» is Marina Lewycka's satirical novel, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (294 pages, in English).
A farmer's indiscretions force a group of migrant workers to flee the strawberry fields where they work in England and embark on a haphazard journey across the country in search of a better life. A satire of economic exploitation inspired by the Canterbury Tales, it combines humour and compassion, with an unlikely romance.
Marina Lewycka's second novel after A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, originally published as Two Caravans; nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Orwell Prize.
For readers of satirical and humorous fiction with a social backdrop; recommended for ages 18 and up and popular in reading groups.
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.
