A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

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THE AWARD-WINNING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

A hilarious, lively, moving and compassionate debut about one Ukrainian-British family's tumultuous relationship and the history they never knew.

'Delightful, funny, touching' Spectator

*****

"As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families."

Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their widowed, tractor-obsessed Ukrainian father from the voluptuous, wealth-obsessed Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she outmanoeuvres the sisters at every turn.

But their campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of European and Ukrainian history, and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . .

*****

'Hugely enjoyable . . . yields a golden harvest of family truths' Daily Telegraph

'Captures the peculiar flavour of Eastern European immigrant life . . . a very rich mixture indeed' Daily Express

'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer' Time Out

Über den Autor

Marina Lewycka was born in Kiel, Germany, after the Second World War, and moved to England with her family when she was about a year old. Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, longlisted for the Man Booker and won the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the Waverton Good Read Award. Her second novel, Two Caravans, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Two Caravans and Marina's third and fourth novels, We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead and The Lubetkin Legacy are all available in Penguin.

Zusammenfassung

This book explores the crucial linkages between financial development, growth and poverty reduction in the context of developing countries and transition economies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and Overview; [...]-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.Shimeles & [...]
Financial Sector Development, Savings Mobilization and Poverty Reduction in Ghana; P.Quartey
Finance and Growth: An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy; P.[...] & [...]-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; [...]-Khasnobis & [...]
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 & [...]

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	336 S.
ISBN-13:	9780241961827
ISBN-10:	0241961823
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lewycka, Marina
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	202 x 131 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Marina Lewycka
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.03.2012
Gewicht:	0,246 kg