A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 01/03/2012
£9.99
Synopsis
'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. 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 emigre 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.
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780241961827
- Number of pages: 336
- Weight: 237g
- Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 20 mm
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