A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Autor Marina Lewyckaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2006 – vârsta de la 18 ani
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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 their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father’s intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143036746
ISBN-10: 0143036742
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 148 x 194 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 0143036742
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 148 x 194 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Recenzii
"A charming comedy of eros... A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty." —Los Angeles Times
"Lewycka is a writer with a fundamentally optimistic vision of the future and a healthy curiosity about the past." —Chicago Tribune
"Charming, poignantly funny." —The Washington Post Book World
"Lewycka is a writer with a fundamentally optimistic vision of the future and a healthy curiosity about the past." —Chicago Tribune
"Charming, poignantly funny." —The Washington Post Book World
Notă biografică
Marina Lewycka was born of Ukrainian parents in a refugee camp at the end of World War II and grew up in England. In the course of researching her family roots for this novel, she uncovered no fewer than three long-lost relatives.
Extras
1. Two phone calls and a funeral
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous 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.
It all started with a phone call.
My father’s voice, quavery with excitement, crackles down the line.
“Good news, Nadezhda. I’m getting married!”
I remember the rush of blood to my head. Please let it be a joke! Oh, he’s gone bonkers! Oh, you foolish old man! But I don’t say any of those things.
“Oh, that’s nice, Pappa,” I say.
“Yes, yes. She is coming with her son from Ukraina. Ternopiol in Ukraina.” Ukraina: he sighs, breathing in the remembered scent of mown hay and cherry blossom. But I catch the distinct synthetic whiff of New Russia.
Her name is Valentina, he tells me. But she is more like Venus. “Botticelli’s Venus rising from waves. Golden hair. Charming eyes. Superior breasts. When you see her you will understand.”
The grown-up me is indulgent. How sweet—this last late flowering of love. The daughter me is outraged. The traitor! The randy old beast! And our mother barely two years dead. I am angry and curious. I can’t wait to see her—this woman who is usurping my mother.
“She sounds gorgeous. When can I meet her?”
“After marriage you can meet.”
“I think it might be better if we could meet her first, don’t you?”
“Why you want to meet? You not marrying her.” (He knows something’s not quite right, but he thinks he can get away with it.)
“But Pappa, have you really thought this through? It seems very sudden. I mean, she must be a lot younger than you.”
I modulate my voice carefully, to conceal any signs of disapproval, like a worldly-wise adult dealing with a love struck adolescent.
“Thirty-six. She’s thirty-six and I’m eighty four. So what?” (He pronounces it ‘vat.’)
There is a snap in his voice. He has anticipated this question.
“Well, it’s quite an age difference...”
“Nadezhda, I never thought you would be so bourgeois.” (He puts the emphasis on the last syllable - wah!)
“No, no.” He has me on the defensive. “It’s just that…;there could be problems.”
There will be no problems, says Pappa. He has anticipated all problems. He has known her for three months.
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous 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.
It all started with a phone call.
My father’s voice, quavery with excitement, crackles down the line.
“Good news, Nadezhda. I’m getting married!”
I remember the rush of blood to my head. Please let it be a joke! Oh, he’s gone bonkers! Oh, you foolish old man! But I don’t say any of those things.
“Oh, that’s nice, Pappa,” I say.
“Yes, yes. She is coming with her son from Ukraina. Ternopiol in Ukraina.” Ukraina: he sighs, breathing in the remembered scent of mown hay and cherry blossom. But I catch the distinct synthetic whiff of New Russia.
Her name is Valentina, he tells me. But she is more like Venus. “Botticelli’s Venus rising from waves. Golden hair. Charming eyes. Superior breasts. When you see her you will understand.”
The grown-up me is indulgent. How sweet—this last late flowering of love. The daughter me is outraged. The traitor! The randy old beast! And our mother barely two years dead. I am angry and curious. I can’t wait to see her—this woman who is usurping my mother.
“She sounds gorgeous. When can I meet her?”
“After marriage you can meet.”
“I think it might be better if we could meet her first, don’t you?”
“Why you want to meet? You not marrying her.” (He knows something’s not quite right, but he thinks he can get away with it.)
“But Pappa, have you really thought this through? It seems very sudden. I mean, she must be a lot younger than you.”
I modulate my voice carefully, to conceal any signs of disapproval, like a worldly-wise adult dealing with a love struck adolescent.
“Thirty-six. She’s thirty-six and I’m eighty four. So what?” (He pronounces it ‘vat.’)
There is a snap in his voice. He has anticipated this question.
“Well, it’s quite an age difference...”
“Nadezhda, I never thought you would be so bourgeois.” (He puts the emphasis on the last syllable - wah!)
“No, no.” He has me on the defensive. “It’s just that…;there could be problems.”
There will be no problems, says Pappa. He has anticipated all problems. He has known her for three months.
Descriere
This wise, tender, deeply funny novel is about an eccentric elderly Ukrainian widower in England and the struggles of his two feuding daughters to thwart the voluptuous young gold-digger from the old country who sweeps him off his feet.
Cuprins
Introduction and Overview; B.Guha-Khasnobis & G.Mavrotas
Sources and Effectiveness of Financial Development: What We Know and What We Need to Know; P.Demetriades & S.Andrianova
The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy Nexus: Some Short-Run Analytics; G.Mavrotas & S.M.Murshed
Finance and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Household Level Analysis; A.Geda, A.Shimeles & D.Zerfu
Financial Sector Development, Savings Mobilization and Poverty Reduction in Ghana; P.Quartey
Finance and Growth: An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy; P.K.Das & B.Guha-Khasnobis
The Impact of Financial Openness on Economic Integration: Evidence from Europe and the CIS; F.Carmignani & A.Chowdhury
Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Growth? Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-1996; N.Hermes & R.Lensink
The Corporate Debt Market in India: An Analytical Study of Macroeconomic and Institutional Issues; B.Guha-Khasnobis & S.Kar
Financial Markets and R&D Investments: A Discrete Time Model to Interpret Public Policies; M.Mazzoli
Financial Sector Development and Total Factor Productivity Growth; S.Kumbhakar & G.Mavrotas
The Effects of Regional Integration: Impact on Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility, Institutional Quality and Growth for MENA Countries; L.Becchetti & I.Hasan
Sources and Effectiveness of Financial Development: What We Know and What We Need to Know; P.Demetriades & S.Andrianova
The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy Nexus: Some Short-Run Analytics; G.Mavrotas & S.M.Murshed
Finance and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Household Level Analysis; A.Geda, A.Shimeles & D.Zerfu
Financial Sector Development, Savings Mobilization and Poverty Reduction in Ghana; P.Quartey
Finance and Growth: An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy; P.K.Das & B.Guha-Khasnobis
The Impact of Financial Openness on Economic Integration: Evidence from Europe and the CIS; F.Carmignani & A.Chowdhury
Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Growth? Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-1996; N.Hermes & R.Lensink
The Corporate Debt Market in India: An Analytical Study of Macroeconomic and Institutional Issues; B.Guha-Khasnobis & S.Kar
Financial Markets and R&D Investments: A Discrete Time Model to Interpret Public Policies; M.Mazzoli
Financial Sector Development and Total Factor Productivity Growth; S.Kumbhakar & G.Mavrotas
The Effects of Regional Integration: Impact on Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility, Institutional Quality and Growth for MENA Countries; L.Becchetti & I.Hasan
Premii
- Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee, 2005