 First edition cover | |
| Author | Marina Lewycka |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Comedy novel |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 31 March 2005 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback& Paperback) |
| Pages | 336 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-670-91560-2 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 57382192 |
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is a humorous novel by Marina Lewycka, first published in 2005 by Viking (Penguin Books).[1]
The novel won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize at the Hay literary festival, the Waverton Good Read Award 2005/6, and was short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction, losing to Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin. Over a million copies have been sold in the UK.[2]
The book was originally published in English, and has been translated into Russian and Ukrainian. In a BBC Bookclub interview, the author mentioned that some reviewers of the Ukrainian translation were hostile, seeing it as an attack on their country.[2]
- ^ Koning, Christina (19 February 2005). "A Short History of Tractors by Marina Lewycka". Times Online. London. Retrieved 7 August 2009.[dead link]
- ^ a b "Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Bookclub. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 13 July 2015.