Lewycka's History of Tractors in Ukrainian (bwl 31) is a hard act to follow but she does well. The caravans, one for women one for men, stand in a strawberry field in Kent, the story revolving round the immigrant workers who inhabit them. Funny (you'll never eat a battery chicken again), sad and closer to reality than Tremaine's The Road Home (bwl 47), this is a wonderfully affectionate account of 'foreignness', not to mention the delicious love story . . .
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 48 November 2008 ) |
