![]() ![]() ![]() The character, clearly seen behind Mr Lewyckyj's scribbles, was truly extraordinary. Translating Peter's Lewyckyj's notes gave me enormous pleasure - and not just because I too was born and spent my childhood and youth in Ukraine. ![]() Marina has kindly agreed to contribute to E&T an exclusive essay about her Dad and his similarities (as well as differences) with Nikolai Mayevsky (see below).īut before I leave you in the engaging company of Marina and her father, I'd like to say this. "A Short History…" is moving, entertaining and profoundly human in its message. This extraordinary book, which has so far sold well over a million copies worldwide, is a story of two British-Ukrainian sisters, whose elderly father - a somewhat naive airy-fairy widower in his 80s - falls under the spell of a buxom thirty-something blonde gold-digger from Ukraine. Internationally best-selling British novelist Marina Lewycka has offered E&T readers a very special Christmas gift - notes and drawings of her late father, engineer Peter Lewyckyj - prototype of Nikolai Mayevsky, the protagonist of "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" - this century's most famous work of fiction with an engineer as the main character. ![]()
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