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Food for thought and a great read Daily Mail Wit, humour, sparkling dialogue, vivid characterization and generous spirit.

Ploughs a rich comic furrow Daily Telegraph Memorably inventive, unexpectedly moving Daily Telegraph A rare treat, all too easy to gulp down in one greedy sitting Spectator Intelligent, lively, well written and compassionate Financial TimesĪn extraordinary read. Remarkable, a lovely novel Sunday Telegraph a very rich mixture indeed, as well as very enjoyable reading Daily Expressįunny, gritty, original. More than just a jolly romp with political undertones is the way it captures the peculiar flavour of Eastern European immigrant life. A riotous oil painting of senility, lust and greed TLS

Thought-provoking, uproariously funny, a comic feast. yields a golden harvest of family truths The Times an understanding of history, a profundity, and yet a lightness of touch, that are a joy. Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer Time OutĪ delightful first novel. Kryvtsov is now trying to help make it a bit safer, even in a former warzone.It's rare to find a first novel that gets so much right. “It would take years to demine this particular field by hand and to guarantee that there are no mines here.”įarming is hard work, but it shouldn’t be a deadly one. “The amount of work is enormous,” Serhii Dudak, who is overseeing the tractor’s demining effort, told Reuters. The remote-controlled tractor can be operated from a digger’s bucket suspended in the air from a safe distance. The equipment was restored and repaired.” The protection got blown out (but) the tractor is safe,” he said.” Everyone’s alive and safe. “We started doing this just because the crop-sowing time has come and we can’t do anything because the rescue services are very busy,” Kryvtsov told Reuters.

Instead, he designed a remote-controlled tractor that was fitted with armor panels from damaged Russian military vehicles. Kryvtsov decided he couldn’t wait for help from overworked official de-miners/sappers to clear the fields in the area, Reuters reported.