Author: LEWYCKA M
Title: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Description: Penguin UK, 2006. Pocket. Pp: 320. WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION - An extraordinary read. Nothing short of amazing. A rare treat. All too to gulp down in one greedy sitting.`Daily Express - 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 kick up the backside.`Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put 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.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. - Hugely enjoyable. Yields a golden harvest of family truths` Daily Telegraph - Thought-provoking, uproariously funny, a comic feast. A riotous oil painting of senility, lust and greed` Economist - Delightful, funny, touching` Spectator. ISBN: 9780141025766. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780141025766
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Title: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Description: Penguin UK, 2006. Pocket. Pp: 320. WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION - An extraordinary read. Nothing short of amazing. A rare treat. All too to gulp down in one greedy sitting.`Daily Express - 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 kick up the backside.`Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put 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.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. - Hugely enjoyable. Yields a golden harvest of family truths` Daily Telegraph - Thought-provoking, uproariously funny, a comic feast. A riotous oil painting of senility, lust and greed` Economist - Delightful, funny, touching` Spectator. ISBN: 9780141025766. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780141025766
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- Book number: 100791
- Book number: 100791
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