Marina Lewycká (11 kníh)
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Marina Lewycká A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian EN´Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. 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.´ Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their…
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Marina Lewycká A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian ENA 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. 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. 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…
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Marina Lewycká A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian EN´Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. 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.´ Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their…
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Marina Lewycká Dva karavany CZCo může mít společného Iryna, mladá, krásná a vzdělaná Ukrajinka plná ideálů, Andrij, bývalý horník, sotva dospělý Malawijec Emanuel, polská katolička Jola, její praktická teta Marta, dvě čínské dívky a pes jménem Pes? Zdánlivě nic, snad jen místo, kde se potkávají. Na kraji jahodového pole uprostřed britského Kentu stojí dva karavany, jeden určený pro ženské sběračky jahod, druhý pro muže. Právě zde tráví valnou…
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Marina Lewycká The Lubetkin Legacy ENFrom the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with…
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Marina Lewycká The Lubetkin Legacy ENNorth London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you. A place rich in…
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Marina Lewycká The Lubetkin Legacy ENNorth London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you. A place rich in…
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Marina Lewycká Various Pets Alive and Dead ENMarcus and Doro were part of a commune from the late 1960s until the early 1990s: lentils, free love, spliffs, radical politics, cheesecloth blouses, sex, housework and cooking rotas, crochet, allotments. Their children have grown up rather different from them: primary school teacher Clara craves order and clean bathrooms, son Serge is pretending to his parents that he is still doing a Maths PhD at Cambridge, while…
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Marina Lewycká Various Pets Alive and Dead ENMarina 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,…
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Marina Lewycká Vilný stařec a hamižné ženy CZOvdovělý inženýr Majevskij, jenž v Anglii ve svém pustnoucím domě píše práci věnovanou úloze traktorů v dějinách, hodlá na stará kolena pojmout za manželku o mnoho let mladší Ukrajinku. Údajně ji chce uchránit před hrozbou vyhoštění a jejímu geniálnímu synovi umožnit studium na prestižní univerzitě.
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Marina Lewycká We Are All Made of Glue ENFrom 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…
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