Luigi Maria Sponzilli Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Una giovane donna algerina di 24 anni vive con il padre vedovo, rimasto invalido sul lavoro e il fratello sedicenne perennemente a caccia di guai nella periferia parigina teatro dei recenti scontri con la polizia. Tra piccoli lavori temporanei in attesa di un futuro migliore e le code alla prefettura per il rinnovo del permesso di soggiorno, Alhème (che in arabo significa "sogno") cerca di mandare avanti la baracca come meglio può in un mondo popolato da assistenti sociali, spacciatori, delinquenti comuni. In compagnia delle amiche cerca l'amore, ma spesso ne è delusa e si rifugia con sollievo da Tantie Mariatou, una straordinaria vicina di casa, che fa le veci di sua madre, assassinata in Algeria nel 1992. Con grande buon senso e molta determinazione Alhème riesce comunque a guardare avanti e a non arrendersi a un presente difficile.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Lewycka tells the side-splittingly funny story of two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who join forces against their father's new, gold-digging girlfriend. Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré 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. But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . . .