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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Marina Lewycka

Paperback | Pages: 326 pages

Rating: 3.4 | 26134 Users | 2632 Reviews

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Original Title:	A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
ISBN:	0141020520 (ISBN13: 9780141020525)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Nikolai Mayevskyj, Vera, Mike, Nadezhda, Valentina
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2005), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2005), Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (2005), Saga Award (2005)

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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Lewycka tells the side-splittingly funny story of two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who join forces against their father's new, gold-digging girlfriend. Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. 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 a kick up the backside. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must 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 fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . . .

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Title	:	A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Author	:	Marina Lewycka
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 326 pages
Published	:	August 28th 2006 by Penguin Books (first published March 31st 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Humor. Cultural. Ukraine

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[3.5] Like a lot of the popular fiction I've read in the last couple of years, not as enjoyable as expected, yet still did a more than adequate job of being distracting and more or less effortless. Whilst the last c.30% at least has episodes of silly farce, a lot of what went before didn't seem a likely winner of the verbosely-named Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, nor something to be festooned in quotes including "extremely funny" and "hilarious". If it weren't that many of

I recently picked this book up used at my local library for $1. The cover burst advertised that it was nominated for a Man Booker Prize, and the back cover copy boasted that it was an international bestseller that was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.My thoughts on that after reading the book: What the fuck?The quick synopsis of the plot is this: Gold-digging Ukrainian immigrant hussy latches on to an elderly Ukrainian widower in England, marries him, and tries to take his money and his house.

Fiction. This book isn't nearly as charming as its title, which, I'll confess, is the main reason I bought it. Mostly it's about a horny, pathetic old man who is being exploited by his much younger, practically mail-order wife. I finished it, but just barely.The characters are Ukrainian and living in England, but don't expect to learn much about what that means for them. There's a lot of family drama, elder abuse, and not much characterization. The first person narrator, the old man's adult

Never before have I bought a book because of title alone. Plus, it was sandwiched between Nicholas Sparks (ughhh!) and "Eat, Pray, Love" (blerghhh!). I rescued it from this ghastly company and expected a grateful dose of funny in return.But instead of fun with tractors I got the above - the family squabbles, elderly abuse, well-hidden family secrets that nobody wants to unearth, the pent-up years of anger and frustration, and the misery of life. In a nutshell, it is a story of a very

Thought this was a great book (despite myself). Easy to read, engaging, likeable characters and well written. The story deals with Nadia, Vera and their wayward Papa (author of the eponymous tractor book) as he deals with the death of their mother and then decides to accquire a young wife from the Ukraine. The arrival of the pneumatically breasted Valentina (part Valkyrie part 60's sex siren) throws the family into chaos and brings to light a lot of forgotten family history. Not laugh out loud

Adult sisters warring over parent(s), money, step mother etc. The extracts about the history of tractors are a gimmick that ought to have more relevance to justify its inclusion; the characters and plot are unoriginal and superficial and the attempts at humour feel lame. I can't figure out the target audience, how was it shortlisted for the Orange prize (just a pun on Ukraine's Orange Revolution?) or selected as Radio 4s Book at Bedtime? An adult plot, but written with limited vocab (except for

This book has such a long blurb that I don't want to use it here. Suffice to say that it is a perfect summary of the book. But here it is for those who would like to read it as part of my review: (view spoiler)["A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Lewycka tells the side-splittingly funny story of two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who join forces against their father's new,