A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: Marina Lewycka

"As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families."

Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put 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.

But the sisters` campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe`s darkest history and sends them back to roots they`d much rather forget . . .