"A remarkably funny book written by a remarkable pair of collaborators." -- New York TimesOstap 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 l...
One of the greatest Russian satires ever published and one of the last works of Russian fiction to poke fun at the Soviet regime before the imposition of unbridled state censorship in the 1930s. Anne O. Fisher's lively translation (the first since 19...
Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in TranslationMore faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov’s Russian classic fully to life. The novel’...