The engineer behind a bestseller

Courtesy of best-selling novelist Marina Lewycka, E&T here presents the notes and drawings of her late father, engineer Peter Lewyckyj prototype of Nikolai Mayevsky, the protagonist of her novel ´A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian´. The book is a story of two British-Ukrainian sisters, whose elderly father, a retired engineer, falls under the spells of a buxom thirty-something gold-digger from Ukraine. ´A Short History...´ is moving, entertaining and profoundly humanistic in its message.