Strawberry Fields
- ISBN-10
- 1594201374
- ISBN-13
- 9781594201370
- Series
- Strawberry Fields
- Category
- Agricultural laborers
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Marina Lewycka
Description
A farmer's indiscretions force a band of illegal migrant workers from different backgrounds to flee their strawberry fields and embark on a haphazard journey across England in search of better lives, an effort marked by an unlikely love affair.
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- 2011-05-01
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- Paperback
- Harry N. Abrams
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- 1996
- 339 pages
- Paperback
- Cornell University Press
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