The Golden Calf Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Ilya Ilf; Evgeny Petrov; Konstantin Gurevich (Translator)
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Ostap Bender, the "grand strategist," is a con man on the make in the Soviet Union during the New Economic Policy (NEP) period. He's obsessed with getting one last big scorea few hundred thousand will doand heading for Rio de Janeiro, where there are "a million and a half people, all of them wearing white pants, without exception."
When Bender hears the story of Alexandr Koreiko, an "undercover millionaire"no Soviet citizen was allowed to openly hoard so much capitalthe chase is on. Koreiko has made his millions by taking advantage of the wide-spread corruption and utter chaos of the NEP, all while serving quietly as an accountant at a government office and living on 46 rubles a month. He's just waiting for the Soviet regime to collapse so he can make use of his stash, which he keeps hidden away in a suitcase.
Teaming up with two petty criminals and a hopelessly nave driver, Bender leads his merry band of mischief makers on a raucously hilarious jaunt across the "wild west" of the early Soviet Union. One of the true classics of Russian literature, this new translation of The Golden Calfthe first complete translation of the novelrestores the absurd, manic energy of the original and reaffirms the judgment of the Soviet censors, who said: "You have a very nice hero, Ostap Bender. But really, he's just a son of a bitch."
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- Title The Golden Calf
- Author Ilya Ilf; Evgeny Petrov; Konstantin Gurevich (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Open Letter, Rochester, NY
- Date 2009-12
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781934824078 / 1934824070
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.56 x 0.72 in (21.59 x 14.12 x 1.83 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous fiction, Satire
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009046595
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Library Journal, 01/15/2010, Page 91
- Publishers Weekly, 10/26/2009, Page 33
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