Автор: Marina Lewycka Название: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian ISBN: 014102576X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141025766 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 712 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: For years, Nadezhda and Vera, two sisters, raised in England by their 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 father has been sliding into his second childhood, and a new woman has entered his life.
Автор: Lewycka, Marina Название: Various Pets Alive and Dead ISBN: 1905490917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905490912 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 1858 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Marina Lewycka explores the clash of the generations in one extremely colourful family in her comic novel "Various Pets Alive and Dead". For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn't.
What they did do was give their children a terror of radicalism, dirt, cooking rotas and poverty. Their daughter Clara wants nothing less conformist than her own, clean bathroom. Their son Serge hides the awkward fact that he's a banker earning loadsamoney.
So when Doro and Marcus spring a surprise on their kids - just as the world is rocked in ways they always wished for - the family is forced to confront some thorny truths about themselves..."Made me laugh at least once every chapter. Lewycka's fiction is unlike anything else around at present. The warmth of its zest, its blend of quirky, humane comedy and intellectual seriousness make this a novel to treasure".
("New Statesman"). "Wonderfully funny, inventive and witty. Fizzes along from beginning to end".
("Daily Express"). "Hilarious. Lewycka's trademark humour is present in abundance ...she is not only witty but astute.
A charming, beautifully observed novel". ("Independent on Sunday"). "Every bit as funny as "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian"".
("Good Housekeeping"). Bestselling author Marina Lewkyca has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her hilarious first novel "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" in 2005, which was the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 2005, winner of the Saga Award for Wit 2005, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 and longlisted for the Booker prize 2005. Her other humorous novels "Two Caravans" (published as "Strawberry Fields" in the USA and Canada) and "We Are All Made of Glue" are also available from Penguin.
Автор: Marina Lewycka Название: We Are All Made of Glue ISBN: 1905490232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905490233 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 1108 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, a bonker lady. The story of a very unlikely friendship.
Georgie Sinclair's husband has walked out; her sixteen-year-old son is busy surfing born-again websites; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World are getting her down.
So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish emigre neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs.
And although they mistrust each other at first - Georgie doesn't like the look of that past-its-sell-by-date fish, while Mrs Shapiro thinks Georgie needs to smarten herself up and grab a new husband - a firm friendship is formed over the reduced-price shelf at the supermarket.
Then Mrs Shapiro is admitted to hospital and to Georgie's surprise, she is named as her next of kin. But sorting out Mrs Shapiro's semi-derelict mansion in Highbury, home to seven stinky cats with agendas of their own, is no easy job when the handyman called in to change the locks turns out to be not what he seems and his two assistants, 'the Uselesses', are doing more breaking than fixing.
And what about the two slimy estate agents (one with a charming taste for bondage) who start competing to trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her rickety old house, or the social worker determined to commit her to a nursing home?
As Georgie steps in to help her new friend, she finds herself unravelling a mystery which takes her from Highbury to wartime Europe to the Middle East, and learning a bit about DIY along the way.
Автор: Marina Lewycka Название: We Are All Made of Glue ISBN: 0141047755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141047751 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 646 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her. Her son's obsessed with the End of the World.
And now her elderly neighbour Mrs Shapiro has decided they are related.
Or so the hospital informs her when Mrs Shapiro has an accident and names Georgie next of kin. This, however, is not a case of a quick ward visit: Mrs Shapiro has a large rickety house full of stinky cats that needs looking after that a pair of estate agents seem intent on swindling from her. Plus there are the 'Uselesses' trying to repair it (uselessly).
Then there's the social worker who wants to put her in a nursing home. Not to mention some letters that point to a mysterious, painful past.
As Georgie tries her best to put Mrs Shapiro's life back together somehow she must stop her own from falling apart...
Автор: Marina Lewycka Название: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian ISBN: 0241961823 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241961827 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1429 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre 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.
Автор: Marina Lewycka Название: Two Caravans ISBN: 0141035536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141035536 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: от 207 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: A field of strawberries in Kent...And sitting in it two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they eye each other warily. There are the Poles Tomasz and Yola, two Chinese girls and Emanuel from Malawi. They're all here to pick strawberries in England's green and pleasant land. But these days England's not so pleasant for immigrants. Not with Russian gangster-wannabes like Vulk, who's taken a shine to Irina and thinks kidnapping is a wooing strategy. And so Andriy - who really doesn't fancy Irina, honest - must set off in search of that girl he's not in love with.
Автор: Marina Lewycka Название: Two Caravans ISBN: 0670916382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670916382 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 1572 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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