With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth.īut 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. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. 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. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewyckas bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Tanika Gupta Book details Book preview Table of contents Citations About This Book Nikolai, an 86 year old retired Ukrainian engineer and tractor historian in Peterborough, has fallen in love with 36 year old Valentina. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six.
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is the first novel by British/Ukrainian author, Marina Lewycka. Lewycka tells the side-splittingly funny story of two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who join forces against their father's new, gold-digging girlfriend.
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Now Marina Lewycka’s quirkily-titled, and quirkily-themed, A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian has arrived on stage.
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