{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-tractors-in-ukrainian-marina-lewycka","title":"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eis bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer'  \u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hugely enjoyable . . . yields a golden harvest of family truths' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Delightful, funny, touching' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMarina Lewycka\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Kiel, Germany, after the Second World War, and moved to England with her family when she was about a year old. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian\u003c\/i\u003e, has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, longlisted for the Man Booker and won the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the Waverton Good Read Award. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eTwo Caravans\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo Caravans\u003c\/i\u003e and Marina's third and fourth novels, \u003ci\u003eWe Are All Made of Glue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVarious Pets Alive and Dead \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Lubetkin Legacy \u003c\/i\u003eare all available in Penguin.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), A-Format, Englisch, 336 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65898920870237,"sku":"K062003273","price":10.2,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/6200327300001A.jpg?v=1789178940","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/a-short-history-of-tractors-in-ukrainian-marina-lewycka","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}