- Title:
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- Written by:
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Marina Lewycka
- Read by:
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Siân Thomas
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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8 hours 48 minutes
- Published:
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December 01 2019
- Available Date:
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December 01 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655637264
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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Award winning author
Putting aside a lifetime of rivalry when they learn that their recently widowed father is planning to remarry a gold-digging woman, sisters Vera and Nadezhda find themselves outmaneuvered by their father's scheming fiancée.
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was 84 and she was 36. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.
Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré 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. But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers 50 years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget ...
'A charming comedy of errors ... A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty.'
Los Angeles Times
'Lewycka is a writer with a fundamentally optimistic vision of the future and a healthy curiosity about the past.'
Chicago Tribune