A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Review
Since I purchased my Kindle, I have not read too many physical copies of books. But recently I went to my local Waterstones to see if my order of ‘Yellowface’ has arrived (it has not at that point, but I have since got it, watch this space) and decided to roam around a bit. Name of Marina Lewycka sounded familiar to me and with that, an interesting book cover and the encouragement by a woman in the bookstore telling me that ‘ A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian’ is one of the funniest books she has read, I ended up buying it. I did not know much about it, as I try not to spoil too much before reading it, except that it is a story about Ukrainian immigrants in the UK. I must say that perhaps my expectations were a bit high, but I found this book to be average at best. The story is indeed about a family fleeing communist regime in the USSR to the UK. It consists of four people-mother, father and two sisters. After the mother’s passing two years prior to the events in the book,...