Summary
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 gangste…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241961841 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024196184X |
| Author: | Marina Lewycka |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 231g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Marina Lewycka
Marina Lewycka was born in Kiel, Germany, after the Second World War, and moved to England with her family when she was about a year old. Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, longlisted for the Man Booker and won the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the Waverton Good Read Award. Her second novel, Two Caravans, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Two Caravans and Marina’s third and fourth novels, We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead and The Lubetkin Legacy are all available in Penguin.
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