Marina Lewycká Ordre des livres (chronologique)

After walking out on his wife to shack up with 'Brexit Brenda' next door, George Pantis thinks he's got it made - especially when he wins millions on a Kosovan lottery he barely remembers entering. Unfortunately, he can't access the money because he's forgotten his password. What is he meant to tell all the forceful people who keep appearing at his doorstep desperate to know his mother's maiden name? The situation is shadier than he thinks, and George is need of rescue. But will his dysfunctional family be able to save him, and in the process, can they save each other?

Hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian . North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you. A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Swahili or buxom housing officers talking managementese. A place where husbands go absent without leave and councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new builds. Marina Lewycka is back in this hilarious, farcical, tender novel of modern issues and manners.

Marcus and Doro were part of a commune from the late 1960s until the early 1990s: lentils, free love, spliffs, radical politics, cheesecloth blouses, sex, housework and cooking rotas, crochet, allotments. Their children have grown up differently from them: primary school teacher Clara craves order and clean bathrooms ; son Serge is pretending he is still doing a doctorate at Cambridge ; while third child Oolie Anna, who has Downs Syndrome, is desperate to escape home and live on her own. Once the truth starts breaking through, who knows what further secrets will be revealed about any of them? Risible tale of modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches, poodles, a chicken and multiplying rabbits.

Als Nadias verwitweter Vater ihr mitteilt, dass er wieder heiraten will, löst er eine gewaltige Familienkrise aus. Sein neuer Schatz ist eine üppige Blondine, aus der Ukraine wie er auch, mit einer Vorliebe für grüne Satinunterwäsche, Fertiggerichte und hochtechnisierte Kücheneinrichtungen. Nadia ist sofort klar, dass diese Frau vor nichts haltmachen wird, um ihre ehrgeizigen Träume zu verwirklichen … (4 CDs, Laufzeit: 4h 40)

From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, and a bonker lady, this is the story of a very unlikely friendship.

Co může mít společného Irina, mladá, krásná a vzdělaná Ukrajinka plná ideálů, Andrij, bývalý horník, sotva dospělý Malawijec Emanuel, polská ortodoxní katolička Jola, její praktická teta Marta, dvě čínské dívky a pes jménem Pes? Zdánlivě nic, snad jen místo, kde se potkávají. Na kraji jahodového pole uprostřed britského Kentu stojí dva karavany, jeden určený pro ženské sběračky jahod, druhý pro muže. Pojí je několik věcí: touha vydělat si a zajistit si tak lepší život, než jaký jim nabízí jejich rodné země a sny, naděje, touha.

A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round-eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi. And although he can't pick strawberries, there's also the Dog . . . Hilarious, gritty, moving and slapstick, Two Caravans has all the ingredients that made A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian so successful.

Une brève histoire du tracteur en Ukraine raconte l'histoire hilarante de deux sœurs en conflit, Vera et Nadezhda, qui s'unissent contre la nouvelle petite amie intéressée de leur père. Deux ans après le décès de leur mère, leur père, âgé de quatre-vingt-quatre ans, tombe amoureux d'une séduisante divorcée ukrainienne de trente-six ans. Elle fait irruption dans leur vie comme une grenade rose, remuant des souvenirs enfouis et réveillant des fantômes familiaux. Les sœurs doivent mettre de côté des années de rivalité pour sauver leur père ingénieur émigré de Valentina, une femme déterminée à s'emparer de sa fortune. Avec son goût pour la lingerie en satin vert et sa cuisine rapide, elle ne reculera devant rien pour atteindre la richesse occidentale. Cependant, leur campagne pour chasser Valentina révèle des secrets de famille, dévoile cinquante ans de l'histoire la plus sombre de l'Europe et les ramène à des racines qu'elles auraient préféré oublier.