{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-tractors-in-ukrainian","title":"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSisters 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer'\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Hugely enjoyable...yields a golden harvest of family truths'\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Delightful, funny, touching'\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBestselling author Marina Lewkyca has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her hilarious first novel\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian\u003c\/i\u003ein 2005, which was the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 2005, winner of the Saga Award for Wit 2005, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 and longlisted for the Booker prize 2005. Her other humorous novels\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwo Caravans\u003c\/i\u003e(published as\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStrawberry Fields\u003c\/i\u003ein the USA and Canada),\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Are All Made of Glue\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVarious Pets Alive and Dead\u003c\/i\u003eare also available from Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clapping Pages","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45156921442490,"sku":"2OBWJ40ZL-Used","price":19.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/5576\/0826\/files\/UKRAIN.jpg?v=1758039811","url":"https:\/\/clappingpages.com\/products\/a-short-history-of-tractors-in-ukrainian","provider":"Clapping Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}