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 th
A Shorter History of Tractors in Ukrainian with Handcuffs
โ Scribed by Marina Lewycka
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 52 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0241966329
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โฆ Synopsis
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,...
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