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发表于2024-11-05
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
For years, Nadezhda and Vera, two Ukrainian sisters, raised in England by their refugee parents, have had as little as possible to do with each other - and they have their reasons. But now they find they'd better learn how to get along, because since their mother's death their aging father has been sliding into his second childhood, and an alarming new woman has just entered his life. Valentina, a bosomy young synthetic blonde from the Ukraine, seems to think their father is much richer than he is, and she is keen that he leave this world with as little money to his name as possible.If Nadazhda and Vera don't stop her, no one will. But separating their addled and annoyingly lecherous dad from his new love will prove to be no easy feat - Valentina is a ruthless pro and the two sisters swiftly realize that they are mere amateurs when it comes to ruthlessness. As Hurricane Valentina turns the family house upside down, old secrets come falling out, including the most deeply buried one of them all, from the War, the one that explains much about why Nadazhda and Vera are so different. In the meantime, oblivious to it all, their father carries on with the great work of his dotage, a grand history of the tractor.
玛琳娜•柳薇卡(Marina Lewycka) 二战结束时出生于德国基尔(Kiel)的难民营,父母均为乌克兰人。她在英国长大成人。在谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学任教。已婚,女儿已长大成人,居住在谢菲尔德。
Good, though not striking. The pain is there but it's too generational to be personal, and Nadia is just too much a cool observer. Nikolai reminds me of Jim Thorne, a borderline eccentric with an appetite for the wonderfully useless knowledges and an almost legendary past, quite likable, while Vera and Valentina poses as such charismatic tigeresses
评分第一本看完的原版fiction值得纪念(?)
评分我最喜欢的角色其实是Vera 像valentina这样的人最终的结局应该是很悲惨的 我觉得作者他爸一直都是疯的
评分看了前10页,so far so good. 赶我不惑的时候, 也就老父亲的一般等价物写点什么。
评分From Doha to home, it takes me half year to read through it chapter by chapter. A complete release when it comes to the very end.
你还记得上次你读一本第一人称主角是50多岁大妈,又通篇没有表露过“我已经老大不小啦”的小说是什么吗?至少在这本书里,在那个单纯到家的的光头酒保把主角称作“老妖精”之前,我已经好久没意识到这一点了。话说回来,人只有到了50多岁的知天命之年,才能对人生的一切安之若...
评分在两个平胸女儿妒嫉大胸继母的勾心斗角中笑着看完了这本书。没有期待中的那么好,也没有想象中的那么烂。合上书,想象着向太阳敬礼的画面,确乎感到一丝温暖。 人生本来就是由无数的乐与苦而组成。那包括对兔子的肺吹气来观察生命是怎么呼吸的,那包括一家人醉倒在地窖里的自...
评分马不停蹄地读着这本《A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian》。课间读,上课前的半个小时也在读,有一次还差点迟到。作者简直有种写侦探小说的节奏感,一点一点地挖着来自过去的线索,终于在第三十章里真相大白。其实从第十三章的结尾处开始,父母隐瞒着Nadia的过去就...
评分一部喜剧,如果仅仅做到了引人发笑,那它一定算不上杰作。假如卓别林只会那些滑稽的招牌动作,他也成不了大师。喜剧并不天然与哀伤绝缘,它只是形式,而形式的下面可以容纳任何内容,包括那些发人深省的。《乌克兰拖拉机简史》再次印证了这一点。 小说走的是见微知著...
评分把①“家事(八十岁老父亲突然要娶比女儿还年轻的新妻子,引发家庭内乱); ②国事(乌克兰近现代史与拖拉机制造业史); ③天下事(两次世界大战、移民潮与前苏联时代更迭); 写得趣味盎然又暗含血泪,语言流畅幽默,还是乌克兰美食包装下的中老年妇女婚姻危机小说,女性元...
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024