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From the author of the international bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian comes a tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents who are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across all of England in pursuit of their various dreams of a better future. <br/><br/> Somewhere in the heart of the green and pleasant land called England is a valley filled with strawberries. A group of migrant workers, who hail from Eastern Europe, China, and Africa have come here to harvest them for delivery to British supermarkets, and end up living in two small trailer homes, a men's trailer and a woman's trailer. They are all seeking a better life (and in their different ways they are also, of course, looking for love) and they've come to England, some legally, some illegally, to find it. They are supervised-some would say exploited-by Farmer Leaping, a red-faced Englishman who treats everyone equally except for the Polish woman named Yola, the boss of the crew, who favors him with her charms in exchange for something a little extra on the side. But the two are discreet, and all is harmonious in this cozy vale-until the evening when Farmer Leaping's wife comes upon him and Yola and does what any woman would do in this situation: She runs him down in her red sports car. By the time the police arrive the migrant workers have piled into one of the trailer homes and hightailed it out of their little arcadia, thus setting off one of the most enchanting, merry, and moving picaresque journeys across the length and breadth of England since Chaucer's pilgrims set off to Canterbury. <br/><br/> Along the way, the workers' fantasies about England keep rudely bumping into the ignominious, brutal, and sometimes dangerous realities of life on the margins for migrs in the new globalized labor market. Some of them meet terrible ends, some give up and go back home, but for those who manage to hang in for the full course of this madcap ride, the rewards-like the strawberries-prove awfully sweet-especially for the young Ukrainians from opposite sides of the tracks, Andriy and Irina, whose initial mutual irritation blossoms into love.
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玛琳娜·柳薇卡（Marina Lewycka） 英国文坛近年来最炙手可热的畅销书作家。“二战”结束时出生于德国基尔难民营，父母均为乌克兰人。她在英国长大，居住在谢菲尔德，任教于哈勒姆大学。
58岁时柳薇卡借《乌克兰拖拉机简史》一书一举成名，赢得2005年波灵格大众伍德豪斯喜剧小说奖和机智小说奖。2007年出版《英国农民工小像》，延续其黑色喜剧的风格，并于2008年入围乔治·奥威尔奖。
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评分前一阵，中国人在关注“飞机去哪了”的时候，全世界都在关注乌克兰去哪，然而我属于后知后觉型，才是因为看这本《小像》才去百度了“橙色革命”、季莫申科、尤先科等词条，百度完了之后我问了某哥一个傻傻的问题：到底乌克兰是归了俄罗斯好还是不归好。某哥语焉不详的回答我：...
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