A Short History Of Tractors In Ukranian

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 325 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. Two Years After Their Mother Died, Their Father (84) Married A 36 Year Old Glamorous Blonde Who Turned Their World Upside Down. Their Campaign To Oust Her Out Of His Life And Wealth Unearthed Some Family Secrets.

Publishers Description: 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 . . . .

ISBN: 9780141049069