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"An amusing, astonishing debut . . . about how a family learns to let go of the past and live and love in the present." —The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWith 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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Romance, Widowers, Children of immigrants, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Ukrainians, Older parents, Historical Fiction, Sisters, Young women, Older men, Sisters, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Widowers, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, Young women, fiction, England, fictionPlaces
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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in English
1429531231 9781429531238
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A short history of tractors in Ukrainian: a novel
2005, Viking, Gardners Books
in English
0670915602 9780670915606
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