A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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name = A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Marina Lewycka
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Comedy novel
publisher = Viking
release_date = 31 March 2005
media_type = Print (Hardback& Paperback)
pages = 336 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-670-91560-2 (first edition, hardback)
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"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" is a novel by Marina Lewycka, first published in 2005 by Viking (Penguin Books).
The novel won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize at the Hay literary festival, the Waverton Good Read Award 2005/6, and was short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction, losing to Lionel Shriver's "We Need to Talk About Kevin".
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The novel details in comic form the varied reactions by two daughters when their widowed father marries a much younger Ukranian immigrant. The father, a former engineer, is writing a history of tractors in Ukranian, details from which are interleaved throughout the text.
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