Courtesy of best-selling novelist Marina Lewycka, E&T here presents the notes and drawings of her late father, engineer Peter Lewyckyj - prototype of Nikolai Mayevsky, the protagonist of her novel 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian'. The book is a story of two British-Ukrainian sisters, whose elderly father, a retired engineer, falls under the spells of a buxom thirty-something gold-digger from Ukraine. 'A Short History...' is moving, entertaining and profoundly humanistic in its message. Lewycka has agreed to contribute an exclusive essay about her father and his similarities (as well as differences) with Nikolai Mayevsky to E&T.
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