A short history of tractors in Ukrainian av Marina Lewycka

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<p><b><i>A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian</i></b><b>is bestselling author Marina Lewycka''s hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. </b><br><br><i>''Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorc¿ 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.'' </i><br><br>Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their ¿gr¿ngineer 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.<br><br>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 rath