by Marina Lewycka · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141025766
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«A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian» is Marina Lewycka's humorous satirical novel, published by Penguin in paperback (336 pages, in English).
A Ukrainian widower in England falls for a young woman from his country who seems only to want his money. His two daughters, raised in England and estranged from each other, unite to stop the relationship while their father writes a history of tractors. A family comedy with secrets and a portrait of immigration.
It is Marina Lewycka's first novel and won the Saga Award for Wit and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2005; it was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize.
For readers of humor and satire who want a family novel with immigrant characters and secrets.
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.
