Informationen zum Autor Marina Lewycka was born in Kiel, Germany, after the Second World War, and moved to England with her family when she was about a year old. Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian , has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, longlisted for the Man Booker and won the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the Waverton Good Read Award. Her second novel, Two Caravans , was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian , Two Caravans and Marina's third and fourth novels, We Are All Made of Glue , Various Pets Alive and Dead and The Lubetkin Legacy are all available in Penguin. Klappentext THE AWARD-WINNING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER A hilarious, lively, moving and compassionate debut about one Ukrainian-British family 's tumultuous relationship and the history they never knew. 'Delightful, funny, touching' Spectator ***** "As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families." Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their widowed, tractor-obsessed Ukrainian father from the voluptuous, wealth-obsessed Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she outmanoeuvres the sisters at every turn. But their campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of European and Ukrainian history, and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . . ***** 'Hugely enjoyable . . . yields a golden harvest of family truths' Daily Telegraph 'Captures the peculiar flavour of Eastern European immigrant life . . . a very rich mixture indeed' Daily Express 'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer' Time Out Zusammenfassung Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction and Overview; B.Guha-Khasnobis & G.Mavrotas Sources and Effectiveness of Financial Development: What We Know and What We Need to Know; P.Demetriades & S.Andrianova The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy Nexus: Some Short-Run Analytics; G.Mavrotas & S.M.Murshed Finance and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Household Level Analysis; A.Geda, A.Shimeles & D.Zerfu Financial Sector Development, Savings Mobilization and Poverty Reduction in Ghana; P.Quartey Finance and Growth: An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy; P.K.Das & B.Guha-Khasnobis The Impact of Financial Openness on Economic Integration: Evidence from Europe and the CIS; F.Carmignani & A.Chowdhury Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Growth? Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-1996; N.Hermes & R.Lensink The Corporate Debt Market in India: An Analytical Study of Macroeconomic and Institutional Issues; B.Guha-Khasnobis & S.Kar Financial Markets and R&D Investments: A Discrete Time Model to Interpret Public Policies; M.Mazzoli Financial Sector Development and Total Factor Productivity Growth; S.Kumbhakar & G.Mavrotas The Effects of Regional Integration: Impact on Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility, Institutional Quality and Growth for MENA Countries; L.Becchetti & I.Hasan...

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Marina Lewycka was born in Kiel, Germany, after the Second World War, and moved to England with her family when she was about a year old. Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, longlisted for the Man Booker and won the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the Waverton Good Read Award. Her second novel, Two Caravans, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Two Caravans and Marina's third and fourth novels, We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead and The Lubetkin Legacy are all available in Penguin.

Klappentext

THE AWARD-WINNING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

A hilarious, lively, moving and compassionate debut about one Ukrainian-British family**'s** tumultuous relationship and the history they never knew.

'Delightful, funny, touching' Spectator

"As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families."

Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their widowed, tractor-obsessed Ukrainian father from the voluptuous, wealth-obsessed Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she outmanoeuvres the sisters at every turn.

But their campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of European and Ukrainian history, and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . .

'Hugely enjoyable . . . yields a golden harvest of family truths' Daily Telegraph

'Captures the peculiar flavour of Eastern European immigrant life . . . a very rich mixture indeed' Daily Express

'It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right . . . Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer' Time Out

Zusammenfassung
Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth.

Inhalt

Introduction and Overview; *B.Guha-Khasnobis & G.Mavrotas
*Sources and Effectiveness of Financial Development: What We Know and What We Need to Know; P.Demetriades & S.Andrianova
The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy Nexus: Some Short-Run Analytics; G.Mavrotas & S.M.Murshed
Finance and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Household Level Analysis; A.Geda, A.Shimeles & D.Zerfu
Financial Sector Development, Savings Mobilization and Poverty Reduction in Ghana; P.Quartey
Finance and Growth: An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy; P.K.Das & B.Guha-Khasnobis
The Impact of Financial Openness on Economic Integration: Evidence from Europe and the CIS; F.Carmignani & A.Chowdhury
Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Growth? Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-1996; *N.Hermes & R.Lensink
*The Corporate Debt Market in India: An Analytical Study of Macroeconomic and Institutional Issues; B.Guha-Khasnobis & S.Kar
Financial Markets and R&D Investments: A Discrete Time Model to Interpret Public Policies; M.Mazzoli
Financial Sector Development and Total Factor Productivity Growth; S.Kumbhakar & G.Mavrotas
The Effects of Regional Integration: Impact on Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility, Institutional Quality and Growth for MENA Countries; L.Becchetti & I.Hasan