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Our daily book review keeps you inspired and informed all summer long TWO CARAVANS Marina Lewycka Penguin, £7.99 Marina Lewycka’s second novel, dedicated to the migrant Chinese cockle-pickers of Morecambe Bay, tells the story of a promised land that breaks its promises. In the middle of a field in Kent, a group of strawberry-pickers shipped from the Ukraine, Malawi and China live in two ramshackle caravans. They have all the difficulties of living on a dusty highway without any of the romance: Irina finds herself pursued by Vulk, a person of “minimum culture” and minimum morals, who attempts to recruit her to his network of streetwalkers. Straight misery is not Lewycka’s style, though, as shown by her critically acclaimed first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. Two Caravans is picaresque work told from multiple... [read full story]
