Lewycka Marina: Kratka povijest traktora na ukrajinskom

Name: Kratka povijest traktora na ukrajinskom
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Author: Lewycka Marina

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Author: Lewycka Marina
Publisher: Profil
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Condition: Odlično
Code: 16334

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Kratka povijest traktora na ukrajinskom

Lewycka Marina

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Marina Lewycka: A Brief History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian spinster. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six years old"... What a drama in two sentences! Only about twenty words and everything is so clear, and so threatening.

The beginning of "A Brief History of Tractors in Ukrainian" by Marina Lewycka can only be compared in recent times to the beginning of "Mammals" by Pierre Merot ("Every classic family must have one member who has achieved nothing in life: a family without such a person is not a real family..."). Lewycka does not give up even an inch in the following sentences.

After the two-sentence drama is followed by a three-sentence romance: Her father "helps her with English, and she cleans the house and cares for him. She sits on his lap and lets him caress her breasts. They are happy together..."

"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" was a great success. The novel sold 800,000 copies in Britain. The story of the fake Ukrainian blonde Valentina, with huge breasts and an unscrupulous intention to get her hands on a British passport and the old man's pounds – delighted the critics as well. The Glasgow Herald reviewer, listed on the back of the novel, wrote that the book brought a smile to his face that did not leave his face all year. Understandably, "Tractor History" is crazy funny. Literally, from the first sentence to the last. But there is also something uncanny in the laughter of millions of Britons over an immigrant tragicomedy.

"Tractor History" demonizes the character of a Ukrainian immigrant. The entire novel is a struggle to deport the intruder back to the East! This is exactly the word that is used - "deportation" - so that the Ukrainian woman would not "hide in some den" and "live on fraudulently obtained social assistance and prostitution!" In one word - "spooky". But the text is not unambiguous. Nor can it be interpreted as anti-immigrant

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