a short history of tractors in ukrainian was bestselling author marina lewyckas bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide lewycka tells the sidesplittingly funny story of two feuding sisters vera and nadezhda who join forces against their fathers new golddigging girlfriendtwo years after my mother died my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde ukrainian divorce he was eightyfour and she was thirtysix she exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade churning up the murky water bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughedoff memories giving the family ghosts a kick up the backsidesisters vera and nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their migr engineer father from voluptuous golddigger valentina with her proclivity for green satin underwear and boilinthebag cuisine she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of western wealthbut the sisters campaign to oust valentina unearths family secrets uncovers fifty years of europes darkest history and sends them back to roots theyd much rather forget