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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Written by Marina Lewycka

Longlisted
The Man Booker Prize 2005
Published by Viking

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Two feuding sisters join forces against their aged father's glamorous, gold-digging new girlfriend in Marina Lewycka’s hilarious debut novel

Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must set 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 50 years of Europe’s darkest history and sends them back to roots they’d much rather forget…
Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka

British-Ukrainian author Marina Lewycka was born in 1946 in a British-run refugee camp in Kiel, Germany to Ukrainian parents, and moved to England with her family when she was a year old
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