a Short History of Tractors in UKRAINIAN
a Short History of Tractors in UKRAINIAN
ISBN: 9780141020525
出版社: Penguin
出版年: 2006-3
页数: 325
定价: GBP 7.99
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. 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 put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre 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...
作者简介
玛琳娜?柳薇卡(Marina Lewycka) 二战结束时出生于德国基尔的难民营,父母均为乌克兰人。她在英国长大成人。在谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学任教。已婚,女儿已长大成人,居住在谢菲尔德。