
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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Narrated by:
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Siân Thomas
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By:
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Marina Lewycka
About this listen
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was 84 and she was 36. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface 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 émigré 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 50 years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget....
©2005 Marina Lewycka (P)2014 Audible, IncCritic reviews
What made the experience of listening to A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian the most enjoyable?
I especially enjoyed the narrator's characterizations, and I feel very blessed that I can read along in my paperback copy of the book, when she breaks out the accents :-DWhat other book might you compare A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian to and why?
I will not compare it to any other book, none springs to mind, to be honest.... It seems like one of a kind, to me...Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
My humor may be a tad on the morbid side, but I found some of the passages very entertaining, the way they were told were hilarious to me, and I laughed out loud, even on the bus... :-)That said, I do not condone abuse and mistreatment of the elders...
Ukranian is NOT my strong suit....
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I'm not certain I would be giving the print version such a high rating, but the narrator hit a home run with the material as far as I'm concerned. Loathsome though Valentina behaved throughout, I looked forward to her scenes as Thomas laid on the Ukrainian accent and broken English for maximum comic effect. The father was also well done, although he sounded an awful lot like a Russian character in a mystery series I listen to ("What's Petru doing here?").
So, not only would I recommend listening, I was left hoping for a sequel.
Audio's the way to go here
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Absolutely brilliant!
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