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Two Caravans
Two Caravans | Marina Lewycka
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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.
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Two Caravans | Marina Lewycka
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I didn‘t love this as much as the Short History of Tractors but I did really enjoy it - same focus on how absurd Britain is seen from outside, juxtaposing a lot of different versions of Ukraine, same poignant humour. The UK needs more books about life in this country for immigrants, there‘s so little in bookshops about it.

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