Caravan

By Marina Lewycka

Subjects: Strawberry industry, Foreign workers, England, fiction, Literature, Ausländer, Erdbeerernte, Alien labor, Fiction, humorous, general, Kraftfahrzeugreise, Fiction, Ukrainians, Hilfsarbeiter, Belletristische Darstellung

Description: A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round-eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi. And although he can't pick strawberries, there's also the Dog . . . Hilarious, gritty, moving and slapstick, Two Caravans has all the ingredients that made A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian so successful.