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The Golden Calf a Novel by Ilf, Ilya; Petrov, Evgeny; Gurevich, Konstantin; Anderson, Helen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"A remarkably funny book written by a remarkable pair of collaborators."— New York Times 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 score—a few hundred thousand will do—and 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 capital—the 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. Ilya Ilf (1897–1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903–1942) were the pseudonyms of Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg and Evgeny Petrovich Katayev, a pair of Soviet writers who met in Moscow in the 1920s while working on the staff of a newspaper that was distributed to railway workers. The foremo

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Author

Ilf, Ilya; Petrov, Evgeny; Gurevich, Konstantin; Anderson, Helen

Publisher

Open Letter

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781322391601

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction