A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION'An extraordinary read. Nothing short of amazing. A rare treat. All too to gulp down in one greedy sitting.'Daily Express'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 kick up the backside.'Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their gr ngineer 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 fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget.'Hugely enjoyable. Yields a golden harvest of family truths' Daily Telegraph'Thought-provoking, uproariously funny, a comic feast. A riotous oil painting of senility, lust and greed' Economist'Delightful, funny, touching' Spectator

Marina Lewycka (Auteur) - Verschenen op 01/02/2006 bij Penguin Group