A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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Narrated by:
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Siân Thomas
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By:
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Marina Lewycka
About this listen
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....
©2005 Marina Lewycka (P)2014 Audible, IncCritic Reviews
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- John
- 10-12-2021
brilliant …
i am getting on in years and looking for a younger wife … interesting perspective considering i have two daughters lol
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- Sonia A
- 03-06-2023
Enthralling and perfectly performed
Quirky story with many funny moments , yet touching. Great for long drives, a “ page turner”
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- Paula Morrow
- 19-05-2021
Loved it!
I have been looking for a fun, philosophical, meaty, engaging, pleasantly political, brilliantly light-hearted but intellectually fulfilling novel for such a long time! As if my life depended on it! And lusciously narrated as well!
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- Tony Wood
- 27-04-2022
Very different
Very different and very engaging.
And most enjoyable.
We learn about two sisters and their changing relationship, about their father, about Eastern Europe during the war, and interesting aspects of the development of the tractor around the world.
I was completely absorbed in all aspects of this story.
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- Ben
- 02-04-2022
boring and unfunny
when people say they don't read fiction these are the kind of books I imagine they've read. i like clever satire like the sellout and i like popular comedy like sedaris, i even like the big bang theory. this i just don't find funny. an old man marries a big titted gold digger. mild shenanigans ensue
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