num_pages: 324
description: '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...
language: English
title: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
titlecomplete: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
characters: Mike, Nikolai Mayevskyj, Valentina, Vera, Nadezhda
genres: Fiction, Family, British Literature, Book Club, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Ukraine
ratings_count: 33142
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 Books