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With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father's intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.
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"A charming comedy of eros... A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty." --Los Angeles Times
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"Lewycka is a writer with a fundamentally optimistic vision of the future and a healthy curiosity about the past." --Chicago Tribune
"Charming, poignantly funny." --The Washington Post Book World
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction 2005.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0143036742
- ISBN 13 9780143036746
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