num_pages: 294
description: Putting aside a lifetime of rivalry when they learn that their recently widowed father is planning to remarry a gold-digging woman, sisters Vera and Nadezhda find themselves outmaneuvered by their father's scheming fiancée, a situation that is compromised by a hurricane, family secrets, and their father's obsession with tractor history. 35,000 first printing.
language: English
title: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
titlecomplete: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
characters: Mike, Vera, Valentina, Nikolai Mayevskyj, Nadezhda
genres: Family, Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, British Literature, Ukraine, Comedy, Book Club, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 33134
places: Ukraine
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Saga Award
publisher: Penguin Press HC, The