{"product_id":"9780241981443","title":"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Penguin Essentials)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSisters Vera and Nadezhda must 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer' Time Out\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Hugely enjoyable . . . yields a golden harvest of family truths' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Delightful, funny, touching' Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49642178969848,"sku":"EB_LI0700_E05-12_SYDNEY","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780241981443-1.jpg?v=1786609718","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780241981443","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}