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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

By - Marina Lewycka
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Viking, London, 2005
ISBN 10 - 0141020520
ISBN 13 - 9780141020525
Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Ukrainians
Shelf No - 10
Call Number - 823.92 LEW
Physical Description - 325 pages ; 23 cm
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When their recently widowed father announces he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realise they must put aside a lifetime of feuding in order to save him. His new love is a voluptuous gold-digger from the Ukraine half his age, with a proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, who stops at nothing in her single minded pursuit of the luxury Western lifestyle she dreams of. But the old man, too, is pursuing his eccentric dreams - and writing a history of tractors in Ukrainian. A wise, tender and deeply funny novel about families, the healing of old wounds, the trials and consolations of old age and - really - about the legacy of Europe's history over the last fifty years.

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