Marina Lewycka

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Winner of the Saga Award for Wit 2005 and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2005. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2005

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Produktbeschreibung

Als ihr verwitweter, 85-jähriger Vater sich in eine blondierte, üppige ukrainische Goldgräberin verguckt und sie auch noch heiraten will, schrillen bei Vera und Nadeshda, den zwei sonst so verschiedenen Schwestern, alle Alarmglocken.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9780141025766
• ISBN-10: 014102576X
• Artikelnr.: 20796373

Autorenporträt

Lewycka, Marina
Marina Lewycka was born in Kiel, Germany, after the war, and moved to England with her family when she was about a year old. Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone and 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 and Marina's third and fourth novels, We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead and The Lubetkin Legacy are all available in Penguin. Marina Lewycka lives in Sheffield.

Rezensionen

It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer
Time Out