![]() ![]() With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth. ![]() 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 aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty." - Los Angeles Times "Charming, poignantly funny." - The Washington Post Book World About the Book This wise, tender, deeply funny novel is about an eccentric elderly Ukrainian widower in England and the struggles of his two feuding daughters to thwart the voluptuous young gold-digger from the old country who sweeps him off his feet.īook Synopsis Nominated for the Man Booker Prize "A charming comedy of eros. ![]()
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