A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Published 2005 · 310 pages · 77,500 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Satire & Humor
How hard is A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian to read?
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian scores 41 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 35 out of 100
- Accessible prose with Ukrainian vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 35 out of 100
- Clear comic sentences serving family saga.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Questions of family, immigration, and aging.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Ukrainian history and family drama interwoven.
- Narrative indirection: 40 out of 100
- Two sisters piece together father's past.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- The tractors, Valentina, the history carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 50 out of 100
- Lewycka's comic distance from family drama.
- Resolution withholding: 40 out of 100
- Family crisis resolves; history continues.
- Structural complexity: 40 out of 100
- Present crisis intercut with historical revelations.
How A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is regarded
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian holds a literary regard score of 62 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.