A short history of tractors in Ukrainian
By: Marina Lewycka
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780143036746
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Widowers; Children of immigrants; Older men; Fathers and daughters; Ukrainians; Older parents; Sisters; Young women; Fiction
Description: With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. 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.
Notes: Originally published: London: Viking, 2005.