A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Registered by ClaireQuaid of Farnborough, Hampshire United Kingdom on 6/26/2009
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
I have had this book ages and for one reason or another never got round to reading it. Glad I did.
Journal Entry 2 by ClaireQuaid at The Deli OBCZ, Lynchford Road in Farnborough, Hampshire United Kingdom on Friday, June 26, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (6/26/2009 UTC) at The Deli OBCZ, Lynchford Road in Farnborough, Hampshire United Kingdom
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In the Deli as per usual.
In the Deli as per usual.
A novel as quirky as the title would suggest.
An eighty-four year old marries a sexy thirty-six year old blonde tart with big tits, a gold digger from the Ukraine.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction 2005.
At times wry humour and wit, very Russian.
After about halfway, it becomes very boring. Could anyone be this stupid?
Lacks the wit of Alexander McCall Smith, with a strong Russian flavour.
Towards the end, philosophical and sad. We learn not to be too judgmental. We forget at out peril, the horrors people in the Ukraine went through during WWII, what they had to do to survive, and what they are going through now under gangster capitalism imposed by the West, not allowed to develop their own third way. It is the destruction of their economy that makes women like Valentina prostitute herself in the West, drawn to what she believes is the glitter and gold of the West.
Marina Lewycka is herself an immigrant from the Ukraine.
The blurb on the book cover, as is too often the case, bears little resemblance to the novel.
Nowhere as good as her second novel Two Caravans.
Also read:
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka [see BCID 6494804]
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen [see BCID 5833164]
Brick Lane by Monica Ali [see BCID 5747726]
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith [see BCID 5804638]
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith [see BCID 5833160]
The Visible World by Mark Slouka [see BCID 5898073]
An eighty-four year old marries a sexy thirty-six year old blonde tart with big tits, a gold digger from the Ukraine.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction 2005.
At times wry humour and wit, very Russian.
After about halfway, it becomes very boring. Could anyone be this stupid?
Lacks the wit of Alexander McCall Smith, with a strong Russian flavour.
Towards the end, philosophical and sad. We learn not to be too judgmental. We forget at out peril, the horrors people in the Ukraine went through during WWII, what they had to do to survive, and what they are going through now under gangster capitalism imposed by the West, not allowed to develop their own third way. It is the destruction of their economy that makes women like Valentina prostitute herself in the West, drawn to what she believes is the glitter and gold of the West.
Marina Lewycka is herself an immigrant from the Ukraine.
The blurb on the book cover, as is too often the case, bears little resemblance to the novel.
Nowhere as good as her second novel Two Caravans.
Also read:
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka [see BCID 6494804]
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen [see BCID 5833164]
Brick Lane by Monica Ali [see BCID 5747726]
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith [see BCID 5804638]
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith [see BCID 5833160]
The Visible World by Mark Slouka [see BCID 5898073]
Journal Entry 4 by keithpp at Iydea in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 1, 2009
