<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 57382192 </Td> </Tr> <P> A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is a humorous novel by Marina Lewycka, first published in 2005 by Viking (Penguin Books). </P> <P> The novel won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize at the Hay literary festival, the Waverton Good Read Award 2005 / 6, and was short - listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction, losing to Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin . Over a million copies have been sold in the UK . </P> <P> The book was originally published in English, and has been translated into Russian and Ukrainian . In a BBC Bookclub interview, the author mentioned that some reviewers of the Ukrainian translation were hostile, seeing it as an attack on their country . </P>

A short history of tractors in the ukraine