Two caravans by Marina Lewycka

Author:Marina Lewycka
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Alien labor, Humorous Stories, Strawberry industry - England - Kent, Humorous, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction, Fiction - General, Strawberry industry, Ukrainians, General, General & Literary Fiction, Foreign workers, Humorous fiction, Foreign workers - England - Kent
ISBN: 9780670916375
Publisher: Fig Tree
Published: 2007-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

Marta regrets that she didn’t manage to bring a chicken with her for their supper, but her views about food have changed in the last few days. After dropping off their passengers in Dover they make their way back to their favourite spot by the carrot-field, where she manages to improvise a delicious supper from white bread, margarine and cold fish, supplemented with carrots and garnished with lemon slices and roadside herbs.

Yola and Tomasz are helping to peel the carrots, and Yola is telling Tomasz about her disagreements with Geta. Tomasz gazes with fascination into Yola’s eyes, asking her to repeat the sounds she made in the toilet, which she does in her typical vulgar way, and they both fall about laughing like children. And Marta thinks, here we go again.

She remembers last time this happened, when Yola met a nice man, a plump greengrocer, and it was all holding hands and giggling and stolen kisses. And then Yola took the man back to her house in Zdroj, and as soon as he met little Mirek, as soon as he took one look at the boy, he was out through the door again like a cornered tomcat. He didn’t even take off his hat. He didn’t even let go of the box of liqueur chocolates in his hand.

“I piss on your cabbages!” Yola shouted at his retreating back, but the words slid off him like butter off a hot dumpling.

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