a Short History of Tractors in UKRAINIAN读书介绍

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...

玛琳娜·柳薇卡（Marina Lewycka），乌克兰裔英国作家。 二战结束时出生于德国基尔（Kiel）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学（Sheffield Hallam University）任教。已婚，女儿已长大成人，居住在谢菲尔德。她的写作始终关注移民的心态、遭遇和处境，勾勒出英国社会最遭人轻蔑的外来群体黑暗的生活，却没有把他们简化成可怜虫，保持着人格的独立与尊严，写他们悲喜交织的欢闹生活。58岁时柳薇卡凭借《乌克兰拖拉机简史》（A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian）一举成名，赢得2005年波灵格大众伍德豪斯喜剧小说奖和机智小说奖。2007年出版《英国农民工小像》（Two Caravans），延续其黑色喜剧的风格，该书于2008年入围乔治·奥威尔奖。另有新作《胶水人...

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