With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father’s intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.
Marina Lewycka is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin, currently living in Sheffield, England.
Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany after World War II. Her family then moved to England where she now lives. She was educated at Keele University and works as a lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
In addition to her fiction, Lewycka has written a number of books giving practical advice for carers of elderly people, published by the charity Age Concern.
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没想到最后还是个haopy ending……这老头看起来很怪,但仔细想想随便哪个人不小心也会长成那样哈哈
评分喜欢除了主线剧情之外的所有东西:二战以及家族历史;拖拉机飞机和坦克;甚至打官司的细节都很有信息量。而主线剧情就是个狗血国产电视剧。只看故事觉得本书在三分之二的时候就可以结束了,而结尾女主打断她爸爸讲飞机更让我怒火中烧:我意识到我想看的真的只是拖拉机历史
评分So witty and vivid. But I am a postmodern woman. A feminist. A protestor. How do I act?
评分So witty and vivid. But I am a postmodern woman. A feminist. A protestor. How do I act?
评分昨天晚上火车上,看到倒数第二章直接哭了……我脆弱的小心灵。不过笑的次数要多一些。
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