A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, (Paperback)

from debnance

Two sisters and their elderly father collide as they have always collided in the past but with tremendous force and great frequency when the elderly father falls for a young woman who wants to immigrate to England from Ukraine. The dialogue is clever and fun and painful and the dad's obsession wi...

from elliepotten

I must be about the last person in the universe to read this novel - but I'm glad I finally did! It opens with Nikolai Mayevskyj, an elderly Ukrainian gentleman living in Peterborough, calling his daughter Nadia to tell her he's getting married. The catch? He's marrying a busty blonde Ukrainian g...

from bcquinnsmom

There is one moment in particular in this novel where elder sister Vera says to younger sister Nadia "Nadia, why do you always go scrabbling around in the past?...The past is filthy. It's like a sewer. You shouldn't play there. Leave it alone. Forget it." (168) Vera has this in common with the wo...

from mrstreme

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was indeed a history of tractors. However, this was also a story about the battles between parents and their children, manipulative romances and surviving the harshest of circumstances. This book with the clever name had many layers - some were good, some ...

from tortoisebook

This is the story of a family of Ukrainians who settled in Peterborough after the war: an elderly widower father, Nikolai, and his two middle-aged daughters, Vera and Nadezhda. It begins when Nikolai announces his engagement to a 36 year old buxom Ukrainian, Valentina. Naturally the daughters are...