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A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian
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Author : Marina Lewycka
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-03-02
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian written by Marina Lewycka and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-02 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION WINNER OF THE SAGA AWARD FOR WIT 2005 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2005 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. 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 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 fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . . A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel. 'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer' Time Out 'Hugely enjoyable...yields a golden harvest of family truths' Daily Telegraph 'Delightful, funny, touching' Spectator Bestselling author Marina Lewkyca has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her hilarious first novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian in 2005, which was the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 2005, winner of the Saga Award for Wit 2005, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 and longlisted for the Booker prize 2005. Her other humorous novels Two Caravans (published as Strawberry Fields in the USA and Canada), We Are All Made of Glue and Various Pets Alive and Dead are also available from Penguin.
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian
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Author : Marina Lewycka
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-03-28
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian written by Marina Lewycka and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-28 with Fiction categories.
Nominated for the Man Booker Prize "A charming comedy of eros... A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty." — Los Angeles Times 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.
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian By Marina Lewycka
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Author : Gillian Bouras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian By Marina Lewycka written by Gillian Bouras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Two Caravans
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Author : Marina Lewycka
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-03-05
Two Caravans written by Marina Lewycka and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-05 with Fiction categories.
Two Caravans is the hilarious and engaging second novel from bestselling author Marina Lewycka. A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they each other warily. There are the Poles, Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; and Emauel from Malawi. They're all here to pick strawberries in England's green and pleasant land. But these days England's not so pleasant for immigrants. Not with Russian gangster-wannabes like Vulk, who's taken a shine to Irina and thinks kidnapping is a wooing strategy. And so Andriy - who really doesn't fancy Irina, honest - must set off in search of that girl he's not in love with. 'Immensely appealing. All but sings with zest for life...could hardly be more engaging, shrewd and winningly perceptive' Sunday Times 'Extremely funny, closely observed insights, scenes of farce, tragedy and horror' The Times Literary Supplement 'Hilarious and horrifying, Two Caravans is funny, clever and well observed' Guardian Bestselling author Marina Lewkyca has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her hilarious first novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian in 2005, which was the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 2005, winner of the Saga Award for Wit 2005, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 and longlisted for the Booker prize 2005. Her other humorous novels We Are All Made of Glue and Various Pets Alive and Dead are also available from Penguin. Two Caravans is published as Strawberry Fields in the USA and Canada.
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian By Marina Lewychka
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Author : Gillian Bouras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian By Marina Lewychka written by Gillian Bouras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
We Are All Made Of Glue
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Author : Marina Lewycka
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Release Date : 2009-12-29
We Are All Made Of Glue written by Marina Lewycka and has been published by Penguin Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-29 with Fiction categories.
Georgie Sinclair's husband has walked out; her sixteen-year-old son is busy surfing born-again websites; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World are getting her down. So when Georgie spots Mrs. Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish émigré neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her garbage in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs and a firm friendship is formed over the reduced-price shelf at the supermarket. Then Mrs. Shapiro is admitted to hospital and to Georgie's surprise, she is named as her next of kin. As Georgie steps in to help her new friend sort out her semi-derelict mansion in Highbury, she finds herself unravelling a mystery that takes her from Highbury to wartime Europe to the Middle East, and learning a bit about DIY along the way.
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian
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Author : Tanika Gupta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian written by Tanika Gupta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Children of immigrants categories.
Nikolai, an 86 year old retired Ukrainian engineer and tractor historian in Peterborough, has fallen in love with 36 year old Valentina. His daughters, Vera and Nadezhda, who have not spoken to one another since their mother's death, unite in horror to defend their father and what remains of his pension. But is Valentina a refugee searching for better opportunities, or a bogus visa seeker trying to cheat a vulnerable old man? Growing closer to her sister, and unearthing some family history from which she has previously been shielded, Nadezhda finally understands the animosity between Vera and her father. Award-winning writer Tanika Gupta has created a wonderful re-telling of this dark family comedy, adapted from the bestselling novel by Marina Lewycka for the stage. It explores the hopes and hardships of immigrants, and how past experiences can shape families and relationships.
A Shorter History Of Tractors In Ukrainian With Handcuffs
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Author : Marina Lewycka
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-01-24
A Shorter History Of Tractors In Ukrainian With Handcuffs written by Marina Lewycka and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-24 with Fiction categories.
Marina Lewycka returns to the characters from A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, with a hilarious erotic twist, in this laugh-out-loud short story, A Shorter History of Tractors in Ukrainian with Handcuffs. 'Ever since she'd first read Sherlock Holmes, Laura Carter had dreamed of being a detective . . . Books were both her escape and her guilty pleasure, which eased her through the boring days and enlivened the nights when her husband was too tired for love. She devoured everything from Proust to Harry Potter, from James Joyce to EL James, she adored detective stories, but maybe her favourite author was Marina Lewycka, whose A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian had strangely echoed a case she had once worked on.' Marina Lewycka was born in Kiel, Germany, after the war, grew up in England and lives in Sheffield. Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, longlisted for the Man Booker and won the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the Waverton Good Read Award. Her second novel, Two Caravans, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Two Caravans, We Are All Made of Glue and Marina's fourth novel, Various Pets Alive and Dead, are all available in Penguin.
Identity And Memory In Marina Lewycka S Novel A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian
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Author : Shanna Große
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2020-07-02
Identity And Memory In Marina Lewycka S Novel A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian written by Shanna Große and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, Saarland University (Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen), course: Proseminar Britische Literaturen und Kulturen, language: English, abstract: This short paper intends to answer the questions how the identities of the two sisters in Marina Lewycka’s novel "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" (2005) are shaped. As the novel contains various flashbacks through past telling, which again influences the different characters of Vera and Nadia, this paper also tries to explain to which extent a personal past memory plays a role within this process of forming their self-concept. This is made by the theoretical constructs and definitions of identity and memory and the thought of how these two constructs are linked, meaning identity being created through memory. Through analyzing selected passages from the book, the theory is applied on the characters of both Nadia and Vera to find out more about their different identities and search for possible reasons in their past. The concept of collective and individual memory (Assmann) will play an important role to give possible reasons for their different perceptions of the past, which thus lead to many conflicts throughout the novel. Lewycka uses memory, especially Nadia’s and Vera’s different perceptions of the past, to determine the sisters’ identities, which also serves as legitimization of their immigration to Great Britain. Selected close readings will show how both sisters developed two different self-concepts out of their memory and how this identification influences their attitude towards migration into a country.
Identity And Memory In Marina Lewycka S Novel A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian
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Author : Shanna Große
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-18
Identity And Memory In Marina Lewycka S Novel A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian written by Shanna Große and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-18 with categories.