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A fluffy pink grenade of a domestic comedy that detonates to reveal the dark, buried traumas of twentieth-century Europe. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, A.
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Disobedience
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The Madonnas of Leningrad
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A luminous, heartbreaking meditation on how art and memory sustain us when the mind and the world are falling apart.
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What a Carve Up!
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An intimate and emotionally heavy exploration of familial duty and the sudden, urgent pull of a family in crisis.
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The History of Love
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Bitter Harvest
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