Marina Lewycká Livres

Deux caravanes abritent des cueilleurs immigrants dans un champ de fraises. Leur existence bascule quand un gangster russe kidnappe Irina, poussant Andriy à entreprendre un long voyage pour la sauver.

Des adhésifs dans le monde moderne Géorgie a le moral en berne : son mari vient de la quitter et elle n'a toujours pas rendu ses articles pour la revue Les adhésifs dans le monde moderne. Aussi, quand son amie Mrs Shapiro, une vieille juive excentrique, est admise a l'hôpital, Georgie décide-t-elle de l'aider en s'occupant de sa bâtisse en ruine. Flanquée de sept chats malodorants et d'une nuée de parasites en tout genre, Georgie va peu a peu exhumer le passé de Mrs Shapiro et réaliser combien les etres humains se retrouvent, souvent malgré eux, soumis aux lois chimiques de l'adhésion. « Une nouvelle fois, Marina Lewycka réunit ironie et tendresse dans un livre mené tambour battant. » Lire

In a Kent field, and around their caravans, a group of strawberry pickers celebrate a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at the supermarket and who picks the strawberries? The Ukrainians, the Poles, the Chinese? And although he can't pick strawberries, there's also the dog

An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and eager to improve her excellent English and find true love with a romantic Englishman; Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Bob Dylan fan, Tomasz, (whose smelly trainers will soon punish those in the men's caravan), Yola, the petite, voluptuous gangmistress and her religious niece Marta, who finds the wild mushrooms to cook with the sliced loaf; then there is Vitaly, king of the new mobilfon world of the shiny new Eastern Europe; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi, come to England to look for his sister. and although he can't exactly help pick strawberries, there's also the Dog... But these are a group leading dangerous lives - exploitative employers, British regulations and gang masters with guns will all threaten their existence as they take to the caravan road until each of them peels off to find their destiny. Hilarious, gritty, moving, and slapstick by turns Two Caravans has every bit of the extraordinary distinctiveness and wit and heart that made A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian so successful.

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.

When their recently widowed father announces he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realise they must put aside a lifetime of feuding in order to save him. His new love is a voluptuous gold-digger from the Ukraine half his age, with a proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, who stops at nothing in her single minded pursuit of the luxury Western lifestyle she dreams of. But the old man, too, is pursuing his eccentric dreams - and writing a history of tractors in Ukrainian. A wise, tender and deeply funny novel about families, the healing of old wounds, the trials and consolations of old age and - really - about the legacy of Europe's history over the last fifty years.

Hopeless failed actor Berthold is exactly the same age as George Clooney (they share a birthday), but still lives with his mum. When he realises at her deathbed that he may lose his mother's lovely council flat, built in the 1960s by celebrated architect Lubetkin, he niftily adopts the old lady in the hospital bed next door and takes her home to impersonate his mum. That's when all the trouble begins!

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?

Hamster, Hedgefonds und die Weltrevolution Niemand würde Serge und Clara ohne weiteres für Geschwister halten. Sie haben kaum Gemeinsamkeiten, doch die zusammen durchlittene Kindheit in einer Hippiekommune im Norden Englands – Batiktücher, Gemüseanbau, freie Liebe – hat sie für immer zusammengeschweißt. Jetzt kommen ihre Eltern, Marcus und Doro, auf den glorreichen Gedanken, nach Jahrzehnten des unehelichen Zusammenlebens nun doch noch zu heiraten. Nicht zuletzt wegen Oolie-Anna, der jüngsten Tochter mit Down-Syndrom. Ein Wirbel skurriler Ereignisse ist die Folge. Und Serge hat ein Geheimnis, das die weltverbessernde Familie nie erfahren darf: Er hat seine Promotion in Cambridge geschmissen und will in London als Investmentbanker das ganz große Geld machen. Doch die Welt der Banken gerät ins Wanken ...