description: 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.
language: English
title: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
titlecomplete: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
characters: Mike, Valentina, Nadezhda, Vera, Nikolai Mayevskyj
genres: Book Club, Ukraine, Novels, Literature, Comedy, Family, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 33135
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: Sound Library